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I am trying to clone Wayland repository from git (for a project) but git clone command is throwing me an error.

I installed curl (from here). After cloning make && make install. Earlier I had a different version which was working fine with git.

Then I again tried cloning Wayland repository and this error popped.

fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/nobled/wayland.git/': Protocol "https" not supported or disabled in libcurl

so tried building curl as ./configure --with-ssl=/usr/local/ssl but I am not able to make any visible changes in curl's behaviour

/usr/local/ssl is a bad --with-ssl prefix!

I also tried this with /etc/ssl/ but failed

/etc/ssl is a bad --with-ssl prefix!

Any suggestion what may have caused this?

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  • Is reinstalling the former curl out of question? You appear to already known that it is the curl you compiled that is causing this, why the question at the end?
    – Rui F Ribeiro
    Jan 30, 2019 at 12:22
  • @RuiFRibeiro Inspite of the fact that this has something to do with the curl (newer version) that I installed. But even when I am doing ./configure --with-ssl=/path/to/some/ssl it is not working. That leaves me wondering if I am giving the right SSL path. Which path should I use? What should be the content of the directory(of which the path is).
    – RC0993
    Jan 30, 2019 at 12:28
  • I can confirm the error with openssl v1.1.1a, at least I wasn't able to build curl with it. Try openssl 1.0.2q. For more details about the different versions check openssl.org/source
    – Michael D.
    Jan 30, 2019 at 18:48

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The switch

--with-ssl={gnutls,openssl}

needs the location of the the header files (*.h) usually in /usr/include/openssl it's a good idea to run configure with --includedir=/usr/include/ telling configure where to look for includes.

If /usr/include/openssl exists on your system and is having *.h files - it should be the right place.

You need to install the

openssl-devel (cent / redhat with yum) or libssl-dev (debian, ubuntu with apt) package otherwise. (Or clone the files from github.com 1.1.1 stable branch).

--with-ssl=/usr/include/openssl

EDIT: 

ls /usr/include/openssl
aes.h        buffer.h     cterr.h   engineerr.h  md5.h          pem.h        rsa.h        symhacks.h
asn1err.h    camellia.h   ct.h      engine.h     mdc2.h         pkcs12err.h  safestack.h  tls1.h
asn1.h       cast.h       des.h     e_os2.h      modes.h        pkcs12.h     seed.h       tserr.h
asn1_mac.h   cmac.h       dherr.h   err.h        objectserr.h   pkcs7err.h   sha.h        ts.h
asn1t.h      cmserr.h     dh.h      evperr.h     objects.h      pkcs7.h      srp.h        txt_db.h
asyncerr.h   cms.h        dsaerr.h  evp.h        obj_mac.h      rand_drbg.h  srtp.h       uierr.h
async.h      comperr.h    dsa.h     hmac.h       ocsperr.h      randerr.h    ssl2.h       ui.h
bioerr.h     comp.h       dtls1.h   idea.h       ocsp.h         rand.h       ssl3.h       whrlpool.h
bio.h        conf_api.h   ebcdic.h  kdferr.h     opensslconf.h  rc2.h        sslerr.h     x509err.h
blowfish.h   conferr.h    ecdh.h    kdf.h        opensslv.h     rc4.h        ssl.h        x509.h
bnerr.h      conf.h       ecdsa.h   lhash.h      ossl_typ.h     rc5.h        stack.h      x509v3err.h
bn.h         cryptoerr.h  ecerr.h   md2.h        pem2.h         ripemd.h     storeerr.h   x509v3.h
buffererr.h  crypto.h     ec.h      md4.h        pemerr.h       rsaerr.h     store.h      x509_vfy.h

EDIT2:

Make sure it's openssl v1.0.2. Compiling curl doesn't seem to work with openssl v1.1.1a

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  • Yea I tried this just now. giving the error as configure: error: /usr/local/include/openssl is a bad --with-ssl prefix!. I am not sure about the root cause.
    – RC0993
    Jan 30, 2019 at 12:33
  • why /usr/local/include and not /usr/include/ ?
    – Michael D.
    Jan 30, 2019 at 12:42
  • that's my default for manual installations. Should that cause a problem here?
    – RC0993
    Jan 30, 2019 at 13:05
  • If /usr/include/openssl exists on your system and is having *.h files - it should be the right place.
    – Michael D.
    Jan 30, 2019 at 13:08
  • Well I have the .h files in /usr/local/include/openssl Why should this not work? Is it necessary to put in /usr/include ? *(Can we go to chat? I don't know how to launch it)
    – RC0993
    Jan 30, 2019 at 13:10

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