On Monday, November 21, 2016 at 5:26:12 PM UTC, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > > On Monday, November 21, 2016 at 11:21:31 AM UTC, Emmanuel Charpentier > wrote: >> >> Dear list, >> >> The fact that we can't ship openSSL (see uncountable theads in sage-devel >> and others) seems to pose more and more difficulties. See for example this >> thread <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-support/rDV9uGT2ViM> >> on sage-support, and especially Dima's answer >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-support/rDV9uGT2ViM/GuKDbhSKAwAJ>, >> as well as this annoying ticket <https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/21767>, >> discussed in this saga >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-devel/QaBdHSNJuKg> . >> >> Could'nt we add OpenSSL as a prerequisite to Sage, and it"s development >> files as a prerequisite to building Sage ? This would require of the user >> to install OpenSSL systemwide, thus making it "system software" and >> satisfying the strange licensing requirements that bother us. >> > > Try installing OpenSSL on an OSX 10.12 Mac using just XCode! > You might be in for a surprise. >
I take it back - it works; you might still have to keep telling your building system where to find headers and libraries, like ./configure --with-openssl=/usr/local (etc) This is not quite "systemwide", if you ask me. That is, I suppose we would need to have a --with-openssl= parameter in the toplevel Sage configure taking care of this. Dima > > >> >> One could even do that indirectly, by requiring a systemwide libcurl >> supporting https : this would de facto enforce the systemwide installation >> of OpenSSL (or a reasonable facsimile). That's what I was trying to do in >> this >> proposal <https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/21767#comment:41>... (IIRC, >> the problem with libcurl is also bound to OpenSSL : libcurl itself is not a >> problem. But I'll have to check : if this is true, we can require OpenSSL >> and ship libcurl which will then compile cleanly). >> >> Comments ? Especially wrt Macs, which seem to be further encumbered by >> Apple's dirty tricks... >> >> Should we have a vote ? >> >> -- >> Emmanuel Charpentier >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
