Hi,
My machine is an IBM iSeries which provides a command line environment
where Unix type binaries can be executed.
It must be understood that I am very much a Unix novice.
 
I have downloaded and successfully run the curl command line binary for
AIX 5.1
This is great but it is not SSL enabled.
 
I guess that hoping for an easy SSL download was expecting too much.
 
I've got the .bff file that resulted from the 5.2 download
(SSL-enabled). The INSTALL doc related to the download requires the AIX
installp command but this does not exist on the iSeries. I spent this
afternoon googling and found some stuff on .bff files and by chance hit
on a discussion which revealed that you can run the restore command
against a .bff from with the Shell environment. The options for restore
a pretty quirky but I found an example that uses -xvqdf so I tried it.
 
restore -xvqdf TWW.curl712.bff
 
Surprisingly (maybe not) this builds a bunch of directories
/opt/TWWfsw/curl712/... which include a /opt/TWWfsw/curl712/bin/curl
  
Running this binary throws an error saying
....Dependent module libcurl.so could not be loaded.
 
However there does indeed appear to be a directory containing this file
- /opt/TWWfsw/curl712/lib/libcurl.so
There is also a directory named .../share containing a ca-bundle.crt
file which presumably contains the default CA certs to accomodate for
SSL enablement.
 
So there's hope (just a little) that maybe somewhere in all this there
is some other thing that must be run to configure this thing properly
but I'll be buggered if I really understand it. It all seems a bit
arcane if your not used to sodding about with unix stuff.
 
Any help appreciated,
Cheers, Peter
 

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