[tlbuild] wget in TL now needs https

Marc Baudoin babafou at babafou.eu.org
Sat Apr 24 12:37:45 CEST 2021


Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> écrit :
> As of now, the CTAN mirror list contains only https mirrors, not http.
> This was necessary in order to cater to (broken/stupid) Chrome behavior.
> 
> Therefore our wget binaries provided in TL now need to support https to
> be useful. I know that several (all?) do not, because https is such a
> mess to compile, and induces so many shared lib dependencies.
> Nevertheless, we have no choice.
> 
> I don't know if it's practical to compile wget statically, but of course
> that would be ideal. Otherwise, it's ok to compile it with shared libs
> for whatever OS version makes the most sense. A system-provided binary is
> preferred (by default) in any case.

Done for NetBSD (amd64 and i386).

> I tweaked the sample configuration invocation at
>   https://tug.org/texlive/build.html#wget
> to remove the --without-ssl, since that's clearly not what we want any
> more, but I'm sure more options are needed in practice. Let me know.

I had to add --with-ssl=openssl to use OpenSSL, which is part of
the base NetBSD system.  By default, wget looks for GnuTLS, which
is not part of the base NetBSD system.


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