For static linking, we need 2 things:
1) lib-link.m4 should use -l<libname> and not <full path to lib>, else it tries
   to link against the .so
2) lib-link.m4 should add $LIBS after the libs we test for, else newer ld's do
   not resolve symbols in static libs properly.

Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
24 Oct 2005

--- wget-1.10.2/m4/lib-link.m4	2005-10-24 16:46:43.000000000 +0200
+++ wget-1.10.2.az/m4/lib-link.m4	2005-10-24 16:48:47.000000000 +0200
@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@
 
   AC_CACHE_CHECK([for lib[]$1], [ac_cv_lib[]Name], [
     ac_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
-    LIBS="$LIBS $LIB[]NAME"
+    dnl $LIBS should be last to resolve symbols when linking static
+    LIBS="$LIB[]NAME $LIBS"
     AC_TRY_LINK([$3], [$4], [ac_cv_lib[]Name=yes], [ac_cv_lib[]Name=no])
     LIBS="$ac_save_LIBS"
   ])
@@ -250,7 +251,7 @@
               dnl standard /usr/lib.
               if test "$enable_rpath" = no || test "X$found_dir" = "X/usr/lib"; then
                 dnl No hardcoding is needed.
-                LIB[]NAME="${LIB[]NAME}${LIB[]NAME:+ }$found_so"
+                LIB[]NAME="${LIB[]NAME}${LIB[]NAME:+ }-l$name"
               else
                 dnl Use an explicit option to hardcode DIR into the resulting
                 dnl binary.
@@ -270,12 +271,12 @@
                 if test "$hardcode_direct" = yes; then
                   dnl Using DIR/libNAME.so during linking hardcodes DIR into the
                   dnl resulting binary.
-                  LIB[]NAME="${LIB[]NAME}${LIB[]NAME:+ }$found_so"
+                  LIB[]NAME="${LIB[]NAME}${LIB[]NAME:+ }-l$name"
                 else
                   if test -n "$hardcode_libdir_flag_spec" && test "$hardcode_minus_L" = no; then
                     dnl Use an explicit option to hardcode DIR into the resulting
                     dnl binary.
-                    LIB[]NAME="${LIB[]NAME}${LIB[]NAME:+ }$found_so"
+                    LIB[]NAME="${LIB[]NAME}${LIB[]NAME:+ }-l$name"
                     dnl Potentially add DIR to rpathdirs.
                     dnl The rpathdirs will be appended to $LIBNAME at the end.
                     haveit=
@@ -307,7 +308,7 @@
                       dnl FIXME: Not sure whether we should use
                       dnl "-L$found_dir -l$name" or "-L$found_dir $found_so"
                       dnl here.
-                      LIB[]NAME="${LIB[]NAME}${LIB[]NAME:+ }$found_so"
+                      LIB[]NAME="${LIB[]NAME}${LIB[]NAME:+ }-l$name"
                     else
                       dnl We cannot use $hardcode_runpath_var and LD_RUN_PATH
                       dnl here, because this doesn't fit in flags passed to the
--- wget-1.10.2/Makefile.in	2005-10-24 16:45:53.000000000 +0200
+++ wget-1.10.2.az/Makefile.in	2005-10-24 16:46:04.000000000 +0200
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 CFLAGS = @CFLAGS@
 CPPFLAGS = @CPPFLAGS@
 DEFS = @DEFS@ -DSYSTEM_WGETRC=\"$(sysconfdir)/wgetrc\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"$(localedir)\"
-LIBS = @LIBS@ @LIBSSL@
+LIBS = @LIBSSL@ @LIBS@
 LDFLAGS = @LDFLAGS@
 
 #
--- wget-1.10.2/src/Makefile.in	2005-10-24 16:43:33.000000000 +0200
+++ wget-1.10.2.az/src/Makefile.in	2005-10-24 16:43:47.000000000 +0200
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 DEFS     = @DEFS@ -DSYSTEM_WGETRC=\"$(sysconfdir)/wgetrc\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"$(localedir)\"
 CFLAGS   = @CFLAGS@
 LDFLAGS  = @LDFLAGS@
-LIBS     = @LIBS@ @LIBSSL@
+LIBS     = @LIBSSL@ @LIBS@
 exeext   = @exeext@
 
 INCLUDES = -I. -I$(srcdir)
--- wget-1.10.2/configure	2005-10-24 16:32:19.000000000 +0200
+++ wget-1.10.2.az/configure	2005-10-24 16:42:54.000000000 +0200
@@ -10180,7 +10180,7 @@
                         LTLIBSSL="${LTLIBSSL}${LTLIBSSL:+ }-L$found_dir -l$name"
             if test "X$found_so" != "X"; then
                                                         if test "$enable_rpath" = no || test "X$found_dir" = "X/usr/lib"; then
-                                LIBSSL="${LIBSSL}${LIBSSL:+ }$found_so"
+                                LIBSSL="${LIBSSL}${LIBSSL:+ }-l$name"
               else
                                                                                 haveit=
                 for x in $ltrpathdirs; do
@@ -10193,10 +10193,10 @@
                   ltrpathdirs="$ltrpathdirs $found_dir"
                 fi
                                 if test "$hardcode_direct" = yes; then
-                                                      LIBSSL="${LIBSSL}${LIBSSL:+ }$found_so"
+                                                      LIBSSL="${LIBSSL}${LIBSSL:+ }-l$name"
                 else
                   if test -n "$hardcode_libdir_flag_spec" && test "$hardcode_minus_L" = no; then
-                                                            LIBSSL="${LIBSSL}${LIBSSL:+ }$found_so"
+                                                            LIBSSL="${LIBSSL}${LIBSSL:+ }-l$name"
                                                             haveit=
                     for x in $rpathdirs; do
                       if test "X$x" = "X$found_dir"; then
@@ -10228,7 +10228,7 @@
                       LIBSSL="${LIBSSL}${LIBSSL:+ }-L$found_dir"
                     fi
                     if test "$hardcode_minus_L" != no; then
-                                                                                        LIBSSL="${LIBSSL}${LIBSSL:+ }$found_so"
+                                                                                        LIBSSL="${LIBSSL}${LIBSSL:+ }-l$name"
                     else
                                                                                                                                                                                 LIBSSL="${LIBSSL}${LIBSSL:+ }-l$name"
                     fi
@@ -10455,7 +10455,7 @@
 else
 
     ac_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
-    LIBS="$LIBS $LIBSSL"
+    LIBS="$LIBSSL $LIBS"
     cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
 /* confdefs.h.  */
 _ACEOF