Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> This fixes the build failure of perl-www-curl build on core-updates:
> https://hydra.gnu.org/build/1553325/nixlog/2
>
> The patch is copied from the upstream bug tracker, but the maintainers
> don't seem to have done anything with the patch yet.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Leo Famulari (1):
>   gnu: perl-www-curl: Fix build failure.
>
>  gnu/local.mk                                       |  1 +
>  .../patches/perl-www-curl-remove-symbol.patch      | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  gnu/packages/web.scm                               |  1 +
>  3 files changed, 41 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/perl-www-curl-remove-symbol.patch

I dug into the curl history and managed to find the commits[0][1] that
lead to this. Combined with the bug report[2] linked in the patch, this
seems sensible.

Last maintainer activity on the upstream tracker was two years ago, so
we may have to carry this a while.

0: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/d6604524ad24daf4581efbe0020da058d2b3af84
1: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/5fce88aa8c1256486377471186fc353c50d610b1
2: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=117793