libuv fails to build on 10.8.5

[Dmitri Zaitsev]

On Saturday, August 17, 2019, Christopher Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 17 Aug 2019, at 12:09 pm, Dmitri Zaitsev <zaitsev at maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> I understand that MacPorts are supporting old versions going back to Tiger
> and some of the stats confirm users' downloads. I do appreciate the advice
> to upgrade but there can be many personal reasons why people prefer to stay
> with their older systems. It is however not at all obvious that a plain
> upgrade to some later supported OS would actually fix that problem, so
> having an alternative would help all these users, and as you mention it is
> entirely within the MacPorts system that some older `ssl` is used
> internally for some reason, instead of the more recent available one that
> could have been used instead, in which case the problem might have not
> existed.
>
>
> what OS you run is of course your choice. I gave my advice and you are
> free to take or leave it.
>
> In this case though, upgrading your OS would absolutely 100% fix your SSL
> problems though, as these are completely specific to running out-of-date
> systems.
>


Are you referring to any specific OS version here?



>
> Chris
>
>
> I do appreciate your time and fully understand that this is not your
> concern but would be still thankful if anyone could advice on how to
> configure MacPorts to use the recent ssl.
>
> Cheers,
> Dmitri.
>
>
>
>
> On Saturday, August 17, 2019, Christopher Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> First, please keep the discussion on the mailing list.
>>
>> just installing the up to date ports for openssl etc. is not enough, as
>> by default the fetches macports performs will not use these.
>>
>> I believe there are ways to bootstrap macports to do this, but as I have
>> no need of it (I don’t run such old OSes myself, apart from in VMs for test
>> purposes) I cannot comment on how that is done.
>>
>> ( Updating your OS is really the best option, if your hardware supports a
>> new OSes. 10.8 hs not received any security updates for quite a while now….
>> )
>>
>> cheers Chris
>>
>> On 17 Aug 2019, at 11:48 am, Dmitri Zaitsev <zaitsev at maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> I am trying to understand the cause and it seems my both openssl and ssh
>> are recent.
>> Any other idea where to look for (other than OS upgrading :-)?
>>
>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58848#comment:4
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, August 17, 2019, Christopher Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have commented on both tickets. They are in essence the same problem,
>>> the out of date SSL support in macOS10.8 that is causing you https fetch
>>> issues.
>>>
>>> cheers Chris
>>>
>>> On 17 Aug 2019, at 11:06 am, Dmitri Zaitsev <zaitsev at maths.tcd.ie>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Please see
>>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58847
>>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58848
>>>
>>> I have managed to get around the first one by manually downloading the
>>> file, but have no idea what to do about the second, which might have the
>>> same cause (failed downloads).
>>>
>>> Any hint is appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Saturday, August 17, 2019, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Aug 16, 2019, at 02:14, Dmitri Zaitsev wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Unfortunately it got worse, I can't install any port at all now. :(
>>>>
>>>> Sorry to hear that... can you provide any more details?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dmitri Zaitsev
>>> School of Mathematics
>>> Trinity College Dublin
>>>
>>> WWW:  http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Dmitri Zaitsev
>> School of Mathematics
>> Trinity College Dublin
>>
>> WWW:  http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Dmitri Zaitsev
> School of Mathematics
> Trinity College Dublin
>
> WWW:  http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/
>
>
>

-- 
Dmitri Zaitsev
School of Mathematics
Trinity College Dublin

WWW:  http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/
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