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

[Harold L Hunt II]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct  2 20:58, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 
>>Got it...
>>
>>One question though: when you built it, was it statically linking the 
>>ssl libs?  When I just rebuilt it, it statically linked them... which 
>>makes me think that the openssl install dependency is wrong, since I'm 
>>pretty sure there aren't any config files needed from the openssl 
>>package and the dynamic libraries, by definition, aren't needed for 
>>statically linked apps...
>>
>>What do you think?
> 
> 
> I know, you didn't ask me, but I'd prefer if applications are linked
> against the OpenSSL shared libs for, hopefully, obvious reasons.

Right, I prefer that as well... I figured the preference was shared.  No 
pun intended :)

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.

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.

Harold