CURL 7.86.0

[zEitEr]

Please supply ideas for how to install a newer version of cURL if you have one.

The same way as custombuild did it before. Customubuild is a script which was initially written by a 3rd part developer Martynas. And now it's an important part of Directadmin. There are no obligations to use software from CustomBuild at all. You might compile your own software and/or even install packages from RPM.

cURL developers offer an official method to build it from source: https://curl.se/docs/install.html

p.s. It's nice to have an auto committed git repository and track all the changes under ./custombuild/ on my server. That way I can see how the things developed and changed. There were 2,390 commits tracked on my private server for the latest 6 years. It's not a big deal to create a simple script to compile cURL.

 

[davidc]

Thank you Alex. I am a developer who wears the server admin hat and is a novice at things server.

It's not a big deal to create a simple script to compile cURL.

I have root access to the VPS server running Centos 7

I have these uncertainties or concerns:

1. Primary - Messing something up on the server with the install. I've read quite a bit about building cURL and been on the libcurl mailing list for years, but this does not preclude harming the server. I want to have HTTP2, TLS and SSH support in cURL and imagine the "rabbit-hole" this may open.

cURL developers offer an official method to build it from source: https://curl.se/docs/install.html

2. Which directory to use? git clone https://github.com/curl/curl.git (download)

3. Is there a specific directory to "... unpack(ed) the source archive" ?

4. Do I follow the UNIX instructions with ./configure ?

5. Will a DirectAdmin update come along and wipe out the cURL installation, as it did with cURL 7.86.0 and DA 1.645 ?

I intend to pose the generic question about ./configure to the libcurl mailing list.

David

another reference: Everything cURL - https://everything.curl.dev/build