port:openssl dependency

Jan Stary hans at stare.cz
Thu Jan 11 07:08:05 UTC 2018


On Jan 10 15:53:59, dluke at geeklair.net wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2018, at 2:49 PM, Jan Stary <hans at stare.cz> wrote:
> > these ports specify a hard dependency on openssl with "port:openssl".
> 
> is libressl now ABI compatible with openssl? IIRC some ports moved from path back to port style dependencies on openssl since libressl was only 'source' compatible and so if you have a path-style dependency and users get things from the buildbot (that were built against openssl) they get non-working ports

If you have libressl installed and install e.g. lynx with
'port install lynx', it downloads the precompiled lynx,
installs  it, and reports it as broken, offering to rebuild.
If you agree to rebuild, it recompiles against the installed libressl.

How exactly is the decision made about lynx being 'broken'
in this situation?

	Jan



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