Icecast - Aug 2004 - New CURL version dependency

I just checked IceCast out from CVS in an attempt to compile it again (I
went through the whole build cycle just a couple of months ago), and I
came across this error when I was building it:

<p>source='yp.c' object='yp.o' libtool=no \
depfile='.deps/yp.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/yp.TPo' \
depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ../depcomp \
gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\"
-DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\"
-DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\"
-DPACKAGE=\"icecast\"
-DVERSION=\"2.0-alpha-2\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1
-DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1
-DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1
-DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500
-DHAVE_IPV6=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DCHUID=1 -DCHROOT=1
-DHAVE_SYS_UIO_H=1 -DHAVE_NANOSLEEP=1 -DHAVE_POLL=1 -DHAVE_SETHOSTENT=1
-DHAVE_ENDHOSTENT=1 -DHAVE_GETNAMEINFO=1 -DHAVE_GETADDRINFO=1
-DHAVE_INET_PTON=1 -DHAVE_CURL=1 -DHAVE_PTHREAD_RWLOCK_T=1
-DHAVE_PTHREAD=1  -I. -I. -I./net -I./thread -I./avl -I./httpp -I./log
-I./timing    -g -O20 -ffast-math -fsigned-char -D_REENTRANT
-D_GNU_SOURCE -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/include
-I/include -I/usr/include  -c `test -f 'yp.c' || echo './'`yp.c
yp.c: In function `yp_submit_url':
yp.c:36: `CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL' undeclared (first use in this function)
yp.c:36: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
yp.c:36: for each function it appears in.)
make[2]: *** [yp.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/cvs/icecast/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/cvs/icecast/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

<p>After a quick cvs log check, I found this last change to yp.c:

- new curl option (CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL) which prevents curl from using
signals when
  timeouts are hit.  This new option needs curl 7.10 at least.

My question is simply this, should IceCast really depending on a release
of curl that is so brand new? I'm running a fresh install of RedHat 9.0,
and it's only got curl 7.9.8-5 installed.

I realize this IS cvs, and it IS expected to fluctuate. However, if/when
that change gets put into a release, it will be unusable by the majority
of people because of that dependency (Which, as far as I could find, is
actually undocumented as yet).

This isn't so much a complaint as simply a "Is that really such a good
idea?".

Just my $0.02

--Joseph Wilhelm
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Joseph Wilhelm <tarken@lyrical.net> said:
> I just checked IceCast out from CVS in an attempt to compile it again (I
> went through the whole build cycle just a couple of months ago), and I
> came across this error when I was building it:
> 
The intent (not yet reflected in the autoconf stuff, and I'm not certain the
code is completely ready for it) is that curl should be optional. If you
don't
have it (and have a sufficiently recent version of it), icecast _should_ still
work, but will not have YP support compiled in. All other functionality will
remain.

This is one of the major todo items for 2.0 release.

Mike

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> The intent (not yet reflected in the autoconf stuff, and I'm not
certain the
> code is completely ready for it) is that curl should be optional. If you
don't
> have it (and have a sufficiently recent version of it), icecast _should_
still
> work, but will not have YP support compiled in. All other functionality
will
> remain.
> 
> This is one of the major todo items for 2.0 release.
> 
> Mike
Hmm, alrighty, sounds cool. I just got an rpm built of 7.10.4 anyways,
so hopefully this'll work. You would believe the amount of pain involved
in getting that rpm to actually build, sheesh. Now the biggest question
is whether it will work. :)

--Joseph Wilhelm
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