compile with c-ares support

Task Info (Flyspray)
Opened By	Dave Reisner (falconindy)
Task ID	22151
Type	Feature Request
Project	Arch Linux
Category	Packages: Extra
Version	None
OS	All
Opened	2010-12-19 23:10:13 UTC
Status	Assigned
Assignee	Christian Hesse (eworm)
Assignee	Leonidas Spyropoulos (inglor)

Details

libcurl is currently built without support for c-ares (also in extra). c-ares provides asynchronous DNS requests and resolution, which gets around the fact that the gethostby*() family of functions are blocking calls. Until recently, c-ares was unable to resolve DNS requests with ipv6 servers, but this was implemented in version 1.7 [1].

https://github.com/bagder/c-ares/commit/8fe746fcf2d5b54242a828840ccac630f7a4075a