From: "Carlo E. Prelz" <fluido@...>
Date: 2013-02-27T19:45:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Mac OS 10.8.2 and openssl

	Subject: Re: Mac OS 10.8.2 and openssl
	Date: mer 27 feb 13 07:18:50 +0900

Quoting Dr. Hegewald (hegewald@irmb.tu-bs.de):

> that does not seem to work:

So that's the reason. Of course if you download openssl (latest is

http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1e.tar.gz

), compile and install it, it *should* be installed under
/usr/local. Then, when you call extconf.rb you *should* pick it in
preference of the default Apple version. And compilation of the Ruby
openssl extensions *should* proceed OK.

Of course, I cannot guarantee anything about this as I am too poor to
own a mac ;-). Also, there is another caveat: I have no idea
whatsoever if the other apps in MacOS will be happy about the
change. You could open a can of worms...

The other path is to learn how to install Openssl in another directory
(read the INSTALL file), and then include the path where the new
openssl.pc file is stored after you run make install at the beginning
of the PKG_CONFIG_PATH shell variable, before executing extconf.rb.
This way, you will keep two separate copies, and Ruby will always use
the newer one, while the rest will still find the old one.

Good luck!

Carlo

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