Let's save you the trouble of trial and error figuring out how to make this thing work in a somewhat elegant manner, by having rpms and being able to up/down-grade at any time, and eventually ending up with something like this:
[root@centos6 build]# curl --version curl 7.52.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.52.1 OpenSSL/1.0.1e zlib/1.2.3 libssh2/1.4.2 Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp Features: AsynchDNS IPv6 Largefile GSS-API Kerberos SPNEGO NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz UnixSockets HTTPS-proxy [root@centos6 build]# rpm -q curl curl-7.52.1-1.x86_64 [root@centos6 build]# rpm -q libcurl libcurl-7.52.1-1.x86_64 [root@centos6 build]#
First, prepare your environment and sync the clocks. You don't want to know the ammount of wierd errors happening because your clock isn't in sync.
For CentOS 6:
sudo yum -y update && yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools" sudo yum -y install groff krb5-devel libidn-devel libssh2-devel nss-devel openldap-devel openssh-clients openssh-server pkgconfig stunnel zlib-devel rpm-build ntpdate perl-Time-HiRes sudo ntpdate -v time.nist.gov
For CentOS 7:
sudo yum -y update sudo yum group mark-install "Development Tools" sudo yum group update sudo yum -y install groff krb5-devel libidn-devel libssh2-devel nss-devel openldap-devel openssh-clients openssh-server pkgconfig stunnel zlib-devel rpm-build ntpdate perl-Time-HiRes perl-Digest-MD5 sudo ntpdate -v time.nist.gov
Now setup the actual build:
sudo adduser build
Login as user "build"
sudo su - build - mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS} echo '%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild' > ~/.rpmmacros
Now you will need the source package for curl 7.52.1 and this spec file which is "borrowed" and modified from the official centos srpm.
Copy this paste to a file and call it curl.spec, save it in the homedir of user "build" : Curl 7.52.1 spec
Paste this to rpmbuild/SOURCES/curlbuild.h (create it as it does not yet exist) : curlbuild.h
Download the sources :
wget https://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.52.1.tar.lzma -O rpmbuild/SOURCES/curl-7.52.1.tar.lzma
Then build :
cd && rpmbuild -ba curl.spec
It should work and the final files are these:
ls rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/ -lah total 1.2M drwxr-xr-x. 2 build build 4.0K Jan 27 20:33 . drwxrwxr-x. 3 build build 4.0K Jan 27 20:33 .. -rw-rw-r--. 1 build build 261K Jan 27 20:33 curl-7.52.1-1.x86_64.rpm -rw-rw-r--. 1 build build 24K Jan 27 20:33 curl-debuginfo-7.52.1-1.x86_64.rpm -rw-rw-r--. 1 build build 200K Jan 27 20:33 libcurl-7.52.1-1.x86_64.rpm -rw-rw-r--. 1 build build 654K Jan 27 20:33 libcurl-devel-7.52.1-1.x86_64.rpm
Now install them :
rpm -Uvh /home/build/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/curl-7.52.1-1.x86_64.rpm /home/build/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/libcurl-7.52.1-1.x86_64.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:libcurl ########################################### [ 50%] 2:curl ########################################### [100%]
And you have it :
curl 7.52.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.52.1 OpenSSL/1.0.1e zlib/1.2.3 libssh2/1.4.2 Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp Features: AsynchDNS IPv6 Largefile GSS-API Kerberos SPNEGO NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz UnixSockets HTTPS-proxy
Yay :D Happy downloading !
Big thanks to whoever maintains hilite.me !
