facter: Could not load openssl; cannot install

[ryandesign@…]

I can't get facter to install on Snow Leopard. The first thing it says while staging is:

Could not load openssl; cannot install

Full log attached.

[nigel@…]

Installing a new Snow Leopard box to work out what the problem is now.

[nigel@…]

So I just did a clean install of 10.6, ran all software updates, installed Xcode 3.2, and installed MacPorts.

port install facter worked cleanly and gave me 1.5.7

[ryandesign@…]

I have +universal in my variants.conf so most everything is built x86_64/i386 universal.

I can confirm that facter installs fine when the dependencies are installed non-universal for x86_64 only.

[nigel@…]

ahah.

Does this fail for you?

/opt/local/bin/ruby -e 'require "openssl"'

[ryandesign@…]

Yes, that does fail:

$ /opt/local/bin/ruby -e 'require "openssl"'
-e:1:in `require': no such file to load -- openssl (LoadError)
	from -e:1

whereas in my non-universal x86_64-only MacPorts install, it returns without error.

[ryandesign@…]

I'm no longer able to reproduce this problem.