From: "Dr. Hegewald" <hegewald@...>
Date: 2013-02-27T19:58:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Mac OS 10.8.2 and openssl

Hi Carlo and all,

On 27.02.2013, at 11:45, "Carlo E. Prelz" <fluido@fluido.as> wrote:

> 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.

No, I do not want to change the default openssl. This would require admin access and probably messes with other things.

> 
> 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

I did that, see my previous mail.

> 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.

Sorry, this description is to compact for me to follow. Do I still need to pass --with-openssl-dir to configure?

Many thanks,
Jan