[Lynx-dev] Building lynx with SSL

[russellbell]

        'gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9)'
        5.4?  I'm on 7.3.  I upgraded from 5.4 in 2016.

        'gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-V''
        I get this too.  configure tries every possible version-check
switch until it gets it right.  As long as it finds 1 valid version
compilation happens.
        
        'configure:2429:28: fatal error: ac_nonexistent.h: No such file or 
directory'
        I get this too.

        'configure:14266:17: fatal error: ssl.h: No such file or directory'
        But not this; what does 

        locate ssl.h | grep -w ssl.h

return?  It seems you don't really have it.


        --with-ssl
        is enough to get mine to build with SSL.
        config.log contains:

        configure:10887: checking if you want ssl library
        configure:10902: result: yes

and:
        configure:14018: checking pkg-config for openssl
        configure:14022: result: yes
        configure:14170: testing adding -lssl -lcrypto to LIBS ...
        configure:14909: testing checking ssl header-path /usr/include/openssl 
...


        Why do you build with 15, not latest?

russell bell