First of all, if you use /usr/sfw/bin/wget with PCA (as recommended), this
doesn't matter at all to you.
For all of those who compile their own versions of wget or use e.g. the
pre-compiled binary from sunfreeware, you should be aware that version 1.13.3
contains a stupid which makes PCA fail to use it. The bug is described here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2011-09/msg00001.html
When running "wget --version", it doesn't print complete version information and
fails with an exit code 3 instead. When compiling wget from source, it can be
fixed by a simple patch included in the above message. I have put a workaround
for that issue into the current development release of PCA (20110907-01), which
makes it work with the original buffy version 1.13.3 of wget, too.
The "good" thing is that not many Solaris users will succeed in compiling wget
1.13.3, anyway. It fails with a compiler or linker error, no matter whether
GnuTLS is used (the new default) or OpenSSL is selected with "configure". Seems
as if the versions of both these libraries provided with Solaris 10 are too old
and are missing required functionality.
I'm sending this directly to the blastwave/opencsw maintainers, too. It might be
worth to either wait for 1.13.4 or to apply the above patch before producing and
delivering new packages for wget.
Martin.
