Installing wget on Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11

gistfile1.txt

curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.17.tar.gz
tar -xzf wget-1.17.tar.gz
cd wget-1.17
./configure --with-ssl=openssl
./configure --with-ssl=openssl --with-libssl-prefix=/usr/local/ssl
make
sudo make install
wget --help
cd .. && rm -rf wget*

I had to add the following before 4/5 lines above:

ln -s /usr/local/opt/openssl /usr/local/ssl

OSX 10.11.4, here's what I get...

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checking for compress in -lz... yes
checking for OPENSSL... no
configure: error: in `/Users/nevqld/wget-1.17':
configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old. Make sure it
is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full
path to pkg-config.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables OPENSSL_CFLAGS
and OPENSSL_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

To get pkg-config, see http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/.
See `config.log' for more details

pkg-config is available from the git repository at git://anongit.freedesktop.org/pkg-config

Solution may be here: http://osxdaily.com/2012/05/22/install-wget-mac-os-x/#comment-1323553

If you have homebrew,
brew install wget
Solved this for me.