# [PATCH v2] Don't use curl_easy_strerror prior to curl-7.12.0

1 messages from 2012-08-24 to 2012-08-24. Participants: Joachim Schmitz.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/31340

## Joachim Schmitz, 2012-08-24 09:58

Subject: [PATCH v2] Don't use curl_easy_strerror prior to curl-7.12.0
Message-ID: <003001cd81df$0158cf60$040a6e20$@schmitz-digital.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/003001cd81df%240158cf60%24040a6e20%24%40schmitz-digital.de

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This reverts be22d92 (http: avoid empty error messages for some curl errors,
2011-09-05) on platforms with older versions of libcURL.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Schmitz <jojo@schmitz-digital.de>
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Resend, regardless that Junio said this not to be needed, as I don't see it applied yet.
Also tried to fix the formatting issues too, to practice submissions ;-)

 http.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index b61ac85..18bc6bf 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -806,10 +806,12 @@ static int http_request(const char *url, void *result, int target, int options)
 				ret = HTTP_REAUTH;
 			}
 		} else {
+#if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x070c00
 			if (!curl_errorstr[0])
 				strlcpy(curl_errorstr,
 					curl_easy_strerror(results.curl_result),
 					sizeof(curl_errorstr));
+#endif
 			ret = HTTP_ERROR;
 		}
 	} else {
-- 
1.7.12

```