Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx does NOT default to https support

[Larry Hynes]

Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
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> | Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2018 11:44:24 PM
> | Subject: [Lynx-dev]  Lynx does NOT default to https support
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> | 
> |     Asked LarryL: 'Q: How do I get Lynx to rely on external libraries
> |     OpenSSL or  GnuTLS, when compiled on OS X?'
> |      ./configure --with-ssl --with-gnutls --enable-gnutls-compat
> | 
> 
> MacOS doesn't have gnutls in its default configuration.
> It's probably available as an add-on, but there's no interest.
> 
> MacOS does have openssl runtime libraries, but no development headers.
> To get that, you would install an add-on (such as MacPorts), which has an 
> "openssl" package.
> 
> Once you have the development package, "--with-ssl" should just work...

If using homebrew to install openssl on MacOS, note that you'll probably
have to specify the path with something like

        ./configure --with-ssl=/usr/local/opt/openssl

homebrew does not symlink the headers into /usr/local