On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:48:47AM -0700, Harold L Hunt II wrote: >Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>On Oct 2 20:58, Harold L Hunt II wrote: >> >>>Got it... >>> >>>One question though: when you built it, was it statically linking the >>>ssl libs? When I just rebuilt it, it statically linked them... which >>>makes me think that the openssl install dependency is wrong, since I'm >>>pretty sure there aren't any config files needed from the openssl >>>package and the dynamic libraries, by definition, aren't needed for >>>statically linked apps... >>> >>>What do you think? >> >> >>I know, you didn't ask me, but I'd prefer if applications are linked >>against the OpenSSL shared libs for, hopefully, obvious reasons. > >Right, I prefer that as well... I figured the preference was shared. No >pun intended :) > >What I wanted to know, though, was historically whether wget has linked >against the static or shared libs so I would know if I was missing >something that caused the shared libs to work.
While we're debating shared vs. static can we get an announcement for the version that's currently available? cgf
