[Rd] configure failed with curl 7.71.1

[Jeroen Ooms]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 10:12 AM Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi dev,
>
> can someone confirm if it is a general R 4.0.4 problem
> or it is happening only on cygwin ?
>
> checking for curl/curl.h... yes
> checking if libcurl is version 7 and >= 7.28.0...
> configure: error: libcurl >= 7.28.0 library and headers are required
> with support for https
> *** ERROR: configure failed
>
> but https is available on curl

You should inspect the config.log or config.status file to see why the
version check is failing.