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diff --git a/lib/README.ares b/lib/README.ares index fdce14a05..dcf1fc259 100644 --- a/lib/README.ares +++ b/lib/README.ares @@ -5,41 +5,36 @@ $Id$ | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| - How To Build libcurl to use ares for asynch name resolves - ========================================================= + How To Build libcurl to Use ares For Asynch Name Resolves + ========================================================= ares: ftp://athena-dist.mit.edu/pub/ATHENA/ares/ares-1.1.1.tar.gz http://curl.haxx.se/dev/ares-1.1.1.tar.gz + http://curl.sourceforge.net/dev/ares-1.1.1.tar.gz -ares patch: - http://curl.haxx.se/dev/ares-curl2.diff + c-ares, a patched and improved version of ares: + http://curl.haxx.se/beta/arescurl-1.0-pre1.tar.gz -Mac OS X quirk: - ares 1.1.1 contains too old versions of config.guess and config.sub. Copy - the ones from the curl source tree in to the ares source tree before you - run configure. +NOTE + libcurl works with ares 1.1.1, but several patches and improvements have + been put into the c-ares package which has made it more portable and better + working on several platforms. Build ares ========== -1. unpack the ares-1.1.1 archive -2. cd ares-src -3. patch -p0 < ares-curl-patch -4. ./configure -5. make +1. unpack the ares archive +2. cd ares-dir +3. ./configure +4. make Build libcurl to use ares ========================= -1. Move the ares source/build tree to subdirectory in the curl root named - 'ares'. -2. ./buildconf -3. ./configure --enable-ares -4. make +1. name the ares source directory 'ares' in the curl source directory +2. ./configure --enable-ares +3. make -If the configure script detects IPv6 support), you need to explicitly disable +If the configure script enables IPv6 support you need to explicitly disable that (--disable-ipv6) since ares isn't IPv6 compatible (yet). - -Please let me know how it builds, runs, works or whatever. I had to do some -fairly big changes in some code parts to get this to work. |