From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 07:28:46 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: KNOWN_BUGS: LDFLAGS passed too late
X-Git-Tag: curl-8_11_0~117
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b4e162566fa3fa04200ac3aa751201dee06995ce;p=thirdparty%2Fcurl.git

KNOWN_BUGS: LDFLAGS passed too late

Makes linking fail on some (ancient) platforms.

Closes #14893
Closes #15306
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diff --git a/docs/KNOWN_BUGS b/docs/KNOWN_BUGS
index 2b04630a9e..5a1e5eeaad 100644
--- a/docs/KNOWN_BUGS
+++ b/docs/KNOWN_BUGS
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ problems may have been fixed or changed somewhat since this was written.
  5. Build and portability issues
  5.1 OS400 port requires deprecated IBM library
  5.2 curl-config --libs contains private details
+ 5.3 LDFLAGS passed too late making libs linked incorrectly
  5.6 Cygwin: make install installs curl-config.1 twice
  5.11 configure --with-gssapi with Heimdal is ignored on macOS
  5.12 flaky CI builds
@@ -225,6 +226,14 @@ problems may have been fixed or changed somewhat since this was written.
  that might be needed only for building libcurl. Further, curl-config --cflags
  suffers from the same effects with CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS.
 
+5.3 LDFLAGS passed too late making libs linked incorrectly
+
+ Compiling latest curl on HP-UX and linking against a custom OpenSSL (which is
+ on the default loader/linker path), fails because the generated Makefile has
+ LDFLAGS passed on after LIBS.
+
+ See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/14893
+
 5.6 Cygwin: make install installs curl-config.1 twice
 
  https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/8839