> Is there any new to the matter?
Can not reproduce the issue with all linux tested -- are you using United
Linux too ?
If you can, please do the following:

cd /tmp
wget <http://www.httrack.com/httrack.tar.gz>
tar xvfz httrack.tar.gz
cd httrack-3.43.9/
./configure CFLAGS="-O0 -g" && make && make install DESTDIR=/tmp/test

And then, attempt to see what's going on with gdb:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/test/usr/local/lib gdb /tmp/test/usr/local/bin/httrack

(gdb) set args <http://www.example.com/> -O ./dest_dir
(gdb) run

Thanks!