`port install' from github tarball fails

[Mojca Miklavec]

Dear Werner,

Lion does not properly support HTTPS. You might need to recompile
MacPorts from source to link against a version of libcurl with full
SSL support.

See for example:
    https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51516

Mojca

On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 at 11:15, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
>
> [macports-base 60483e6e71054bcd741a55901c52117077ec7c43]
>
> I'm working on a new Portfile for the `extractpdfmark' tool.  Within
> the file I have
>
>   github.setup        trueroad extractpdfmark 1.0.2 v
>   github.tarball_from releases
>
> After `port sync' I tried `port -v install' and I got
>
>   --->  Attempting to fetch extractpdfmark-1.0.2.tar.gz from
>           http://nue.de.distfiles.macports.org/extractpdfmark
>   [...]
>   --->  Attempting to fetch extractpdfmark-1.0.2.tar.gz from
>           https://github.com/trueroad/extractpdfmark/releases/download/v1.0.2
>   [...]
>   Error: Failed to fetch extractpdfmark: The requested URL returned error: 404
>
> Saying `curl --version' returns
>
>   curl 7.61.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin11.4.2)
>     libcurl/7.61.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2p zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.5
>     libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5)
>   Release-Date: 2018-09-05
>   Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps pop3
>     pop3s rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
>   Features: AsynchDNS IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz TLS-SRP
>     UnixSockets HTTPS-proxy PSL
>
> which looks OK to me.
>
> Doing some manual tests with `curl' I tried
>
>   curl -o x https://github.com/trueroad/extractpdfmark/releases/download/v1.0.2/extractpdfmark-1.0.2.tar.gz
>
> which returned a `you are redirected' HTML document (attached).
> However, adding the `-L' flag to curl (to follow redirections) makes
> the program successfully download the tarball.
>
> How shall I proceed?  It seems to me that I've hit a bug in
> macports...
>
>
>     Werner
>
>
> PS: Looking into the log file I see
>
>       :notice:fetch --->  Attempting to fetch extractpdfmark-1.0.2.tar.gz
>         from https://github.com/trueroad/extractpdfmark/releases/download/v1.0.2
>       :debug:fetch Fetching distfile failed: error:1407742E:SSL
>         routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version
>
>     Maybe this is related also.