Fall back to internal url downloader when built without curl.

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Joey Hess 2013-04-16 15:20:21 -04:00
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@ -30,3 +30,17 @@ I have tried other available version on Arch linux (AUR git-annex-bin, AUR git-a
At that stage, what I would like to be able is to try to figure out what is going on using the log file.
Thanks
> This could happen when using the amd64 standalone build, because I
> forgot to install curl into its chroot, so it was not included in the
> bundle. If the host system also lacked curl, or something prevented
> curl from working, it would fail like this.
>
> I've included curl into the amd64 standalone build. I've also made the
> assistant fall back to using a built-in http client if it is built
> without curl.
>
> None of which helps at all with the Arch git-annex-bin hack, since
> that binary will be built with a working curl (when my amd64 standalone
> builder builds it), and then installed onto a system, that,
> apparently, has a broken curl. Which is one of many reasons I cannot
> support that hack. [[done]] --[[Joey]]