bundled libcurl limits cookie expiry date to the year 2038 about curl-rust HOT 1 OPEN

It is possible there is some build-time configuration define that we aren't setting when building the bundled libcurl version that usually gets set when libcurl is built using its typical distro build chain. I would check here to see if there is a HAVE_ variable that may be necessary that we aren't setting. Being limited to a 32-bit timestamp sounds an awful lot like libcurl wanting to detect optional 64-bit timestamp support, and our build script not informing libcurl of the timestamp width of the target triple.

I'll also mention #321 here because I was completely unaware that I forgot to install libcurl-devel, and I was really surprised that some libcurl gets bundled silently.

I think we're likely to close that issue as "won't fix". Not only would not falling back to the bundled libcurl be a breaking change, it would also be annoying for most users who would rather see compiling curl-rust to "just work" whether or not a system libcurl is available rather than needing to opt-in to a bundled version somehow. That's been @alexcrichton's general stance too if I recall.

from curl-rust.