Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx-dev Digest, Vol 111, Issue 4

[Supriyo Biswas]

On 4/5/2013 9:30 PM, address@hidden wrote:

> Not that all is well with the successfully compiled version. Whenever I 
> access a site with https now, I get a prompt: "SSL error: unable to get local 
> issuer certificate - Continue?" This definitely did not happen in July when I 
> built the image, but I cannot tell you when it did start. This also happens 
> when I use the suggested workaround (define CRYPT etc.) with the current 
> release.

Shouldn't this be the exact intended behaviour? Local certificates are
not installed, and every browser does have a list of certificates. Can
you try to build on Linux? It shouldn't happen there, since Linux
presumably should have a list of certificates that Lynx can use.

(Problems with network connectivity and incompatibility of USB modems
entirely prevent me from using Linux.)

> Finally, I noticed during this investigation that, if I try to build on 
> Cygwin with ssl and don't have ssl installed on my system, configure and make 
> nevertheless complete successfully (without ssl of course). I don't know if 
> this is intended, but it seems wrong. 

While I don't have much experience, some software is configured to
compile like that - if `configure' doesn't find the dependency it tries
to compile regardless of the option.

Regards,