[Bug-wget] Support of non-linux OS's going down the drain?

[H.Merijn Brand]

As of wget-1.13, you seem to prefer GNUTLS over openssl. Whatever the
reasoning behind it might be, the configuration now just FAILs if the
target system only has OpenSSL and no GNU TLS. OK, I'll redefine that
fail to "it disables ssl" when there is openssl.

That is bad. Why? GNU TLS /might/ be more safe than OpenSSL in  some
aspects, but is is for sure not available on (older) versions of AIX
and/or HP-UX. It is already quite a bit of work to get OpenSSL and
OpenSSH to be rather actual/recent on those boxes, but you can simply
forget getting gnutls to be available on those. The dependency chain
is a straight hell.

That said, even with (in 1.13 undocumented, but documented in 1.13.1 -
thanks) --with-ssl=openssl, wget simply fails on all my HP-UX boxes.

With HP-UX 11.00 and HP C-ANSI-C it doesn't even *compile* anymore!

$ ./configure --prefix=/pro --disable-nls --with-ssl=openssl 
--without-libiconv-prefix --without-libintl-prefix --without-libgnutls-prefix
:
$ make
:
        cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../src   -I/pro/local/include 
-I/usr/local/include  -Ae -O2 +Onolimit +Z -z   -I/pro/local/include 
-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/X11R6 -I/usr/local/X11R6/include 
-I/usr/contrib/X11R6/include -c -o c-ctype.o c-ctype.c
source='cloexec.c' object='cloexec.o' libtool=no \
        DEPDIR=.deps depmode=hp /bin/sh ../build-aux/depcomp \
        cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../src   -I/pro/local/include 
-I/usr/local/include  -Ae -O2 +Onolimit +Z -z   -I/pro/local/include 
-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/X11R6 -I/usr/local/X11R6/include 
-I/usr/contrib/X11R6/include -c -o cloexec.o cloexec.c
cpp: "./", line 4: warning 2014: Illegal ^A, ^B, ^C, or ^D in source. Changed 
to space.
cpp: "./", line 7: warning 2014: Illegal ^A, ^B, ^C, or ^D in source. Changed 
to space.
cpp: "./", line 13: warning 2014: Illegal ^A, ^B, ^C, or ^D in source. Changed 
to space.
cpp: "./", line 21: warning 2014: Illegal ^A, ^B, ^C, or ^D in source. Changed 
to space.
cc: "", line 2: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "�".
cc: "", line 4: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "".
cc: "", line 4: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "".
cc: "", line 4: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "".
cc: "", line 4: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "".
cc: "", line 4: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "�".
cc: "", line 4: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "�".
cc: "", line 4: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: ".
cc: "", line 4: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "".
cc: "", line 4: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "|".
cc: "", line 4: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "".
cc: "", line 4: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "".
cc: "", line 4: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "`".
cc: "", line 6: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "".
cc: "", line 7: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "p".
cc: "", line 13: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "�".
cc: "", line 16: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "".
cc: "", line 18: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "".
cc: "", line 20: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "".
cc: "", line 21: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "$float".
cc: panic 2017: Cannot recover from earlier errors, terminating.
make[4]: *** [cloexec.o] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/pro/3gl/GNU/wget-1.13.1/lib'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/pro/3gl/GNU/wget-1.13.1/lib'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/pro/3gl/GNU/wget-1.13.1/lib'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/pro/3gl/GNU/wget-1.13.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2
Exit 2

-- 
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11.11, 11.23 and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.1, 11.0 .. 11.4 and AIX 5.2 and 5.3.
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