Re: [Bug-wget] [wget 1.13] [configure error] Forcing to use GnuTLS? --with-ssl was given, but GNUTLS is not available

[Perry Smith]

On Aug 13, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Douglas Mencken wrote:

>> If you want to use OpenSSL then you have to pass --with-ssl=openssl.
> 
> I hope this would be mentioned in README and/or INSTALL. And that
> configure.ac will be fixed to say something better than stupid
> "--with-ssl was given, but GNUTLS is not available" (especially, when
> --with-ssl hasn't been explicitly given at all — this do really
> confuses people). I suppose, plain ./configure would give me the same
> error too.

I took a stab at installing GNUTLS and gave up.  The beauty of wget is
I can get it going with very few things needed.  I compiled without ssl
at all but getting openssl going is fairly easy too.  GNUTLS is asking
for nettle, zlib, and something else (according to the web page) but
then it snuck up and started asking for pkg-config.  That is way down
the list in my bring up sequence.

I guess... I don't get what is wrong with openssl. Why do we need GNUTLS
at all? ("we" being the open source community.)

pedz