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

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Perry Smith <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

there is no gnu tls package for your system?  Is there need to compile
everything?



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

Here[1] you can find a good explanation.  OpenSSL is still supported, as
the GNU TLS backend is not as mature as the OpenSSL, my hope is that
pushing it by default will make things change in the future.
If you have so many problems with GNU TLS, what is difficult about
--with-ssl=openssl to configure?

Thanks,
Giuseppe



1) http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html