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Due to me not having root rights, I compiled git from source locally. My distro is OpenSUSE 13.1. Googling the error fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'https'

It was suggested that curl is not configured properly. However, using curl to access https://example.com works just fine.

Another suggestion was that curl wasnt linked properly to git during configuring and making git.

The steps I took to get where I am now:

Installed Openssl-1.0.0t in my home.

./config --prefix=$HOME shared
make
make install

(completes without any errors)

Then I installed curl-7.48.0 in my home:

./buildconf
./configure --prefix=$HOME --with-ssl=$HOME

Compiler:         gcc
  SSL support:      enabled (OpenSSL)
  SSH support:      enabled (libSSH2)
  zlib support:     enabled
  GSS-API support:  no      (--with-gssapi)
  TLS-SRP support:  enabled
  resolver:         default (--enable-ares / --enable-threaded-resolver)
  IPv6 support:     enabled
  Unix sockets support: enabled
  IDN support:      no      (--with-{libidn,winidn})
  Build libcurl:    Shared=yes, Static=yes
  Built-in manual:  enabled
  --libcurl option: enabled (--disable-libcurl-option)
  Verbose errors:   enabled (--disable-verbose)
  SSPI support:     no      (--enable-sspi)
  ca cert bundle:   no
  ca cert path:     /etc/ssl/certs/
  ca fallback:      no
  LDAP support:     enabled (OpenLDAP)
  LDAPS support:    enabled
  RTSP support:     enabled
  RTMP support:     no      (--with-librtmp)
  metalink support: no      (--with-libmetalink)
  PSL support:      no      (libpsl not found)
  HTTP2 support:    disabled (--with-nghttp2)
  Protocols:        DICT FILE FTP FTPS GOPHER HTTP HTTPS IMAP IMAPS LDAP LDAPS POP3 POP3S RTSP SCP SFTP SMB SMBS SMTP SMTPS TELNET TFTP

make 
make install

(completes without any errors)

Thirdly I installed expat 2.1.1:

CPPFLAGS="-I $HOME/include" LDFLAGS="-L$HOME/lib -L$HOME/lib64" ./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install

(completes without any errors)

Finally GIT 2.8.2:

CPPFLAGS="-I $HOME/include" LDFLAGS="-L$HOME/lib -L$HOME/lib64" ./configure --with-curl=$HOME --with-openssl=$HOME --prefix=$HOME --with-expat=$HOME
make
make install

This too seems to go well with no warnings to be reported. I obviously overlooked something but cant seem to figure out what... can anybody help me?

SOLUTION Add the lib64 directory to LDFLAGS (commands have been updated).

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  • "Unable to find remote helper for 'https'" during git clone on Stack Overflow. You have to build cURL with HTTPS, and then build Git with cURL support. In addition, I've found you can configure git with --wth-curl, but it will silently fail if something is wrong. You must inspect config.log to look for failures. Also see Are there any hints with building Git with HTTP and HTTPS helpers on the cURL mailing list.
    – jww
    Commented May 19, 2016 at 4:38
  • As you see in the OP, I have succesfully build curl with https. Thank you for referring me to the config.log, I was not aware of it siletnly failing. The post is updated with the solution, which was adding the lib64 directory to LDFlags.
    – Henk1989
    Commented May 20, 2016 at 11:12
  • You should add an answer to your question; and not edit the question and insert an answer. Also see How does accepting an answer work on Meta.
    – jww
    Commented May 20, 2016 at 16:42

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SOLUTION Add the lib64 directory to LDFLAGS (commands have been updated).

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