libuv fails to build on 10.8.5

[Christopher Jones]

> On 17 Aug 2019, at 12:16 pm, Dmitri Zaitsev <zaitsev at maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> 
> On Saturday, August 17, 2019, Christopher Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk <mailto:jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> On 17 Aug 2019, at 12:09 pm, Dmitri Zaitsev <zaitsev at maths.tcd.ie <mailto: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upgrading your OS would absolutely 100% fix your SSL problems though, as these are completely specific to running out-of-date systems.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?

I cannot give you OS versions, but the core issue is a lot of sites have turned off support for old insecure SSL/TLS versions, and macOS10.8 does not have support for the newer ones they now require.

> 
>  
> 
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58848#comment:4>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Saturday, August 17, 2019, Christopher Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk <mailto: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 <mailto:zaitsev at maths.tcd.ie>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Please see 
>>>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58847 <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58847>
>>>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58848 <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 <mailto: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/ <http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/>
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Dmitri Zaitsev
>>> School of Mathematics
>>> Trinity College Dublin
>>> 
>>> WWW:  http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/ <http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/>
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Dmitri Zaitsev
>> School of Mathematics
>> Trinity College Dublin
>> 
>> WWW:  http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/ <http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/>
>> 
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Dmitri Zaitsev
> School of Mathematics
> Trinity College Dublin
> 
> WWW:  http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/ <http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/>
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