Seemant Kulleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 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. > > Ah ok, ./configure --help still shows the option, so this is fairly > undocumented then.
I spoke too soon: it turns out that --with-socks is only removed in Wget 1.10 (now in beta). But --with-socks in 1.9.1 doesn't really force linking with the socks library, it merely checks for a "Rconnect" function in "-lsocks". If that is not found, the build is continued as usual. You should check the configure output (along with `ldd' on the resulting executable) to see if that really worked. >> 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. > > if use static; then > emake LDFLAGS="--static" || die I now tried `LDFLAGS=--static ./configure', and it seems to work in 1.10. Linking does produce two warnings, but the resulting executable is static.
