On 2 Apr 2002 at 22:34, Phillip Morelock wrote:
> Just thought I would let you know that I have compiled wget successfully
> on mac os x, in case you want to update your architectures or whatever
> (it was mentioned in the documentation to send this if i succeeded).
Thanks. Actually, the MACHINES file in the current CVS version
already mentions it!
> But it's not working. i made symlinks in every place i could think
> of. I mean, the configure script says it can't find a bunch of stuff
> it's expecting for ssl, but maybe it works...make and make install don't
> complain.
If configure couldn't find it, the executable won't be built with
SSL support. At the moment, the configure scripts only check for
the OpenSSL package. Maybe Apple supply their own SSL package. If
that is the case, you'll have to wait for someone to support it in
Wget or install the OpenSSL package into /usr/local (so it
doesn't clash with Apple's SSL package) before configuring Wget.
> Also I noted that the install documentation is a little out of whack WRT
> the --info-dir and --mandir params. It puts man1 directly under
> /usr/share in my case (i supplied /usr/share because INSTALL said it
> puts it into ${--mandir}/man . --infodir works properly as documented,
> but the INSTALL document appears to say differently for --mandir (at
> least on my system).
If you want /usr/share/man/man1/wget.1 and
/usr/share/info/wget.info you should use --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info. The default for --mandir is $PREFIX/man
and the default for --infodir is $PREFIX/info, where $PREFIX can be
set with the --prefix=$PREFIX option and defaults to /usr/local. I
think that is what the INSTALL document says in fact, if you read
it a bit more closely.
