On Mon, 8 Dec 2014, teach me wrote:

> This is the configure line I tried
> $ cd ~/curl-7.39.0
> $ ./configure --disable-shared --with-zlib=$HOME/zlib-1.2.8
> --with-ssl=$HOME/openssl-1.0.1j

The clues are in config.log so check that for when the tests fail.

openssl requires -ldl to work statically so LIBS="-ldl" ./configure ... is at
least one thing you need. Possibly it is the only thing missing.

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