Unable to make git with https support

From: Nate Parsons <parsons.nate@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 7, 2012, 19:52 UTC
Message-ID: <CADjGbJq_HL--_CAuE_Yj3B0srx=WDficot8bgadvW92zz9PJdg@mail.gmail.com>

I'm trying to make git for myself, but can't seem to get https working. This is what I did to make it:

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> wget http://git-core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.7.9.3.tar.gz
> tar -xf git-1.7.9.3.tar.gz
> cd git-1.7.9.3.tar.gz
> ./configure --with-curl --prefix=$HOME
> make
> make install

In a new shell

> git clone https://github.com/git/git.git

Cloning into 'git'... fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'https'

But my machine does have curl, and that curl can access https urls

> which curl

/usr/bin/curl

> curl --version

curl 7.19.0 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8h
zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.10
Protocols: tftp ftp telnet dict ldap http file https ftps
Features: GSS-Negotiate IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz

> curl https://github.com/git/git.git

<GitHub 404 page, no https error message>

Thanks, Nate