Re: [Chicken-users] Building the openssl egg on MacOS

2019-07-15 Thread Lassi Kortela
I maintain the openssl egg these days. Very nice, thanks for your efforts! Ugh. I've always had the impression macOS gets worse with each release, but this is ridiculous, almost as if they expect everyone to use XCode for development... I find that the usability gets better with each

Re: [Chicken-users] Building the openssl egg on MacOS

2019-07-15 Thread Lassi Kortela
I spent a _little_ while digging into the details of this a few months ago, and my understanding is this: * Apple were suffering version-skew hell because (reportedly) the OpenSSL folk kept changing the ABI for the library. * So they lost patience and deprecated OpenSSL on macOS Sounds

Re: [Chicken-users] Building the openssl egg on MacOS

2019-07-15 Thread Norman Gray
Greetings. On 15 Jul 2019, at 19:53, Vasilij Schneidermann wrote: > And honestly > speaking, OpenSSL isn't nice to deal with either Indeed! I spent a _little_ while digging into the details of this a few months ago, and my understanding is this: * Apple were suffering version-skew hell

Re: [Chicken-users] Building the openssl egg on MacOS

2019-07-15 Thread Vasilij Schneidermann
Hello Lassi, I maintain the openssl egg these days. > On MacOS Mojave, "chicken-install openssl" fails because the OS doesn't ship > any pkg-config definition file for its version of the openssl library. The > pkg-config definition is supposed to be in a file called 'openssl.pc' but > 'sudo find

[Chicken-users] Building the openssl egg on MacOS

2019-07-15 Thread Lassi Kortela
On MacOS Mojave, "chicken-install openssl" fails because the OS doesn't ship any pkg-config definition file for its version of the openssl library. The pkg-config definition is supposed to be in a file called 'openssl.pc' but 'sudo find / -name openssl.pc 2>/dev/null' turns up no such file for