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Something to keep in mind is that the new configuration script is designed to auto-detect certain dependencies, and will link Xerces to libcurl if it's not told not to do so. This is usually ok, but will result in anything linked to Xerces being linked indirectly to OpenSSL, which may create conflicts in some environments. To avoid this, you can override configure and tell it to use an alternate "NetAccessor" implementation, e.g. --enable-netaccessor-socket.
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