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    <p>Hi Ken,</p>
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    <p>I had finally some time to test your suggestions, below my
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            libs/libcrypto.a |  | /usr/bin/sed 's/.* //' | sort | uniq
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    <p>My tests show that the latter helps. I changed my portfile to:<br>
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    <p>configure.args  --disable-guile \<br>
                      --disable-silent-rules \<br>
                      --disable-libdane \<br>
                      --disable-doc \<br>
                      --enable-local-libopts \<br>
                      --enable-openssl-compatibility \<br>
                      --with-p11-kit \<br>
                     
      --with-system-priority-file="${prefix}/etc/gnutls/default-priorities"
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                      --with-default-trust-store-pkcs11=pkcs11: \<br>
                      ac_cv_prog_AWK=/usr/bin/awk \<br>
                      lt_cv_path_NM=${prefix}/bin/nm<br>
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          <div>I just added a combination of the above to the `gnutls`
            portfile, and success:</div>
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            <div>$ port -v installed gnutls</div>
            <div>The following ports are currently installed:</div>
            <div>  gnutls @3.6.5_1+doc (active) platform='darwin 9'
              archs='i386' date='2019-01-10T22:53:28-0800</div>
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    <p>Koreander:~ multix$ port -v installed gnutls <br>
      The following ports are currently installed:<br>
        gnutls @3.5.19_1+doc platform='darwin 9' archs='i386'
      date='2018-11-16T01:58:08+0100'<br>
        gnutls @3.6.5_1+doc (active) platform='darwin 9' archs='i386'
      date='2019-01-19T15:05:53+0100'</p>
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    <p>looks cool, doesn't it?</p>
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    <p>I had to build this way of course:</p>
    <p>port -v upgrade gnutls configure.compiler=macports-clang-5.0<br>
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    <p>Riccardo<br>
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