ATTN Harold Hunt - Re: https no longer supported with wget v1.10.1

[Hack Kampbjorn]

Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> What I wanted to know, though, was historically whether wget has linked 
> against the static or shared libs so I would know if I was missing 
> something that caused the shared libs to work.

Yes, it has historically used shared libs also for ssl.
> 
> Unfortunately, it looks like wget must have always been linking against 
> the static ssl libs because it uses a custom 550 line m4 script to find 
> the ssl libs and it doesn't seem to know anything about Cygwin or to 
> prefer shared over static libs.  I don't know that I want to open that 
> can of worms just yet, since I usually end up having to fix about a 
> weeks worth of bad autoconf in order to get things working again.  In 
> the mean time, I think I'll release the statically linked version to 
> maintain the status quo.

They removed libtool support somewhere between 1.9.1 and 1.10.1. This 
seems to have caused this problem. I've tried with different --with-ssl 
arguments but it doesn't seem to consistenly find '-lssl -lcrypto'. The 
easiest thing is to just force it to use the -l libraries over the .a libs

$ diff -u wget-1.10.1/Makefile.in*
--- wget-1.10.1/Makefile.in     2005-10-03 19:56:34.153712800 +0200
+++ wget-1.10.1/Makefile.in.orig        2005-06-27 00:06:49.000000000 +0200
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
  CFLAGS = @CFLAGS@
  CPPFLAGS = @CPPFLAGS@
  DEFS = @DEFS@ -DSYSTEM_WGETRC=\"$(sysconfdir)/wgetrc\" 
-DLOCALEDIR=\"$(localedir)\"
-LIBS = @LIBS@ @LTLIBSSL@
+LIBS = @LIBS@ @LIBSSL@
  LDFLAGS = @LDFLAGS@
# Note: it's only @LIBSSL@ -> @LTLIBSSL@

$ cygcheck wget-1.10.1/.build/src/wget.exe
wget-1.10.1/.build/src/wget.exe
   d:\cygwin\bin\cygcrypto-0.9.8.dll
     d:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
       C:\WINNT\System32\ADVAPI32.DLL
         C:\WINNT\System32\NTDLL.DLL
         C:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.DLL
         C:\WINNT\System32\RPCRT4.DLL
   d:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-3.dll
     d:\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll
   d:\cygwin\bin\cygssl-0.9.8.dll

> 
> Harold
> 


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