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

[Harold L Hunt II]

Hack,

Great idea... seemed to work just fine on this end.

I've just posted a 1.10.1-2 for upload that has ssl support re-enabled.

Harold

Hack Kampbjorn wrote:
> 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