Curl compilation failed on LIBSSH2_SFTP_STATVFS' undeclared

[Bramzor]

I did this

Trying to compile the new version of Curl (curl-7.49.0.tar.gz) to update my current verions:
curl -V
curl 7.47.1

I expected the following

Compilation of this is done automatically via custombuild from DirectAdmin, this is actually the first time that it fails.

curl/libcurl version

[curl -V output perhaps?]
Curl that I'm trying to compile is curl-7.49
LibSSH2 version 1.2.9-1.el5.rf

operating system

CloudLinux Server release 5.11

error:

CC libcurl_la-ssh.lo
ssh.c: In function 'ssh_statemach_act':
ssh.c:1624: error: 'LIBSSH2_SFTP_STATVFS' undeclared (first use in this function)
ssh.c:1624: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
ssh.c:1624: error: for each function it appears in.)
ssh.c:1624: error: expected ';' before 'statvfs'
ssh.c:1627: error: 'statvfs' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [libcurl_la-ssh.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/curl-7.49.0/lib' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory/usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/curl-7.49.0/lib'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

[jay]

LIBSSH2_SFTP_STATVFS was added 6 years ago to libssh2 1.2.6. If we want to allow earlier versions of libssh2 we could do something like

#ifdef LIBSSH2_SFTP_ST_RDONLY
#define HAVE_LIBSSH2_SFTP_STATVFS
#endif

and then guard the statvfs sections with HAVE_LIBSSH2_SFTP_STATVFS. I don't think that will help here though, if you're using 1.2.9. Are you sure about that?

[bagder]

I think we should either make libcurl build with that old libssh2 version or we should check for it and tell the user that it is too old to work...

[Bramzor]

I assume the version I use is the one that is installed. No way to get the version of the library?
Installed Packages Name : libssh2 Arch : x86_64 Version : 1.2.9 Release : 1.el5.rf Size : 830 k Repo : installed Summary : Library implementing the SSH2 protocol URL : http://www.libssh2.org/ License : BSD Description: libssh2 is a library implementing the SSH2 protocol as defined by : Internet Drafts: SECSH-TRANS(22), SECSH-USERAUTH(25), : SECSH-CONNECTION(23), SECSH-ARCH(20), SECSH-FILEXFER(06)*, : SECSH-DHGEX(04), and SECSH-NUMBERS(10).

Is that an old version? It's the one in the repository.

[bagder]

libssh2 1.2.9 is soon five years old and there have been a bunch of releases since then. 1.7.0 is the latest these days.

[Bramzor]

No newer version in the most used repo's of EL5. Still one year before it's EOL.
Could I use alt-libssh2?

Available Packages Name : alt-libssh2 Arch : x86_64 Version : 1.4.3 Release : 8.el5 Size : 130 k Repo : cloudlinux-x86_64-server-5 Summary : A library implementing the SSH2 protocol License : BSD Description: libssh2 is a library implementing the SSH2 protocol as defined by : Internet Drafts: SECSH-TRANS(22), SECSH-USERAUTH(25), : SECSH-CONNECTION(23), SECSH-ARCH(20), SECSH-FILEXFER(06)*, : SECSH-DHGEX(04), and SECSH-NUMBERS(10).

[jay]

I don't see why not. No matter which of those you use it should work though. Is it possible you have an older libssh2 installed somewhere?