Seemant Kulleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wanted to alert you all to a bug in wget, reported by one of our > (gentoo) users at: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69827 > > I am the maintainer for the Gentoo ebuild for wget. > > If someone would be willing to look at and help us with that bug, > it'd be much appreciated.
Since I don't use Gentoo, I'll need more details to fix this. For one, I haven't tried Wget with socks for a while now. Older versions of Wget supported of --with-socks option, but the procedure for linking a program with socks changed since then, and the option was removed due to bitrot. I don't know how the *dynamic* linking against socks works in Gentoo, either. Secondly, I have very little experience with creating static binaries, since I personally don't need them. I don't even know what flags USE=static causes to be passed to the compiler and the linker. Likewise, I don't have a clue why there is a difference between Wget 1.8 and Wget 1.9 in this, nor why the presence of socks makes the slightest difference. I don't even know if this is a bug in Wget or in the way that the build is attempted by the Gentoo package mechanism. Providing the actual build output might shed some light on this.
