From: Erik Faye-Lund Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:05:35 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Makefile: default to -lcurl when no CURL_CONFIG or CURLDIR Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I think something along the lines of > > ifdef CURLDIR > CURL_LIBCURL = > else > CURL_CONFIG = curl-config > CURL_LIBCURL := $(shell sh -c '$(CURL_CONFIG) --libs' 2>/dev/null) > fi > > may be the right way to write this? > > Note that $(shell $(CURL_CONFIG) --libs) when CURL_CONFIG is empty > would barf when $(CURL_CONFIG) expands to an empty string. There's still the fact that msysGit does *not* need CURLDIR, but doesn't have curl-config either. So I think this one will also complain for us.