Bug#442338: Fwd: Bug#442338: FTBFS: error: 'CURLE_FTP_USER_PASSWORD_INCORRECT' was not declared in this scope

[Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 08:19:44PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> curl 7.17.0 breaks the build of openoffice.org. Rene has already found
> the cause, it is described below.
> 
> Is it only a formal error by the curl side or openoffice.org requires
> to be upgraded to the new API?

None of the above. 

> > > | g++  -fmessage-length=0 -c -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing   -DCURL_NO_OLDIES -I.  [...]

Defining CURL_NO_OLDIES means that the package is explicitly disavowing any
backwards compatibility that curl might supply it.  The only time a package
should be setting that macro is to test whether it needs to be upgraded to
continue to work with libcurl in the future; it should not be setting it as
a matter of course or it will eventually break (as it just has).

The short-term solution is to remove that macro from the OO build.  The long
term solution is to fix OO to avoid using those obsolete definitions.

>>> Dan
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