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Re: ATTN Harold Hunt - Re: https no longer supported with wget v1.10.1
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:48:47AM -0700, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>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.
While we're debating shared vs. static can we get an announcement for
the version that's currently available?
cgf