GIT from source: fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'https'

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).