Wget 1.16.1 has broken detection of non-built-in openssl on MacOSX. Openssl comes with MacOSX but it's deprecated by Apple and it's an old version. For this reason, many MacOSX users custom install a newer openssl and put it in /usr/local/ssl (which, IIRC, is the default location for custom openssl installs).
Up through wget 1.16, the following configure flags sufficed to make wget's configure script recognize this custom openssl and *use* it: ./configure --with-ssl=openssl --with-libssl-prefix=/usr/local/ssl But on wget 1.16.1, those same flags have no effect, and wget is built against the Mac system openssl in /usr/lib, which is old and deprecated. Something in the configure script must have changed. I hope that this is either repaired, or that the README/INSTALL are amended to include special instructions on how to force wget to pick up a custom openssl on MacOSX. I'm no programmer, but I have a hunch that the same batch of pkg-config related changes (2014-11-01 in the ChangeLog) that broke pcre handling on MacOSX (See earlier thread) have broken openssl detection. I do have pkg-config on my system, in /usr/local. I have found that whether or not I remove pkg-config from my system, I can't get openssl in /usr/local/ssl to get picked up and used to link with" lines. Cheers, Charles
