Jean Louis wrote:
Configure cannot run without "sort", and if "sort" is compiled with ssl, then ./configure is not working, regardless.
Sure, but that's not really a bug in the coreutils build procedure, which assumes a POSIX-like environment containing the C compiler and a few standard utilities. If these utilities don't work coreutils won't build, just as most other packages won't build.
It sounds like your problem is that your distro builds coreutils with the --with-openssl option, but does not list the OpenSSL libraries as prerequsites for coreutils. If so, that's a bug in your distro's packaging rules and should be reported to your distro; it's not something coreutils itself can fix.
