postgresql83: configure: error: library 'ssl' is required for OpenSSL

[drjlevi6]

With any of these commands, I get:

--->  Configuring postgresql83
Error: Failed to configure postgresql83, consult /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_databases_postgresql83/postgresql83/work/postgresql-8.3.23/config.log
Error: Failed to configure postgresql83: configure failure: command execution failed
Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_databases_postgresql83/postgresql83/main.log for details.

[drjlevi6]

merged files config.log and main.log referred to by installation log

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

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[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

Error is:

:info:configure configure: error: library 'ssl' is required for OpenSSL
:info:configure Command failed:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_databases_postgresql83/postgresql83/work/postgresql-8.3.23" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --sysconfdir=/opt/local/etc/postgresql83 --bindir=/opt/local/lib/postgresql83/bin --libdir=/opt/local/lib/postgresql83 --includedir=/opt/local/include/postgresql83 --datadir=/opt/local/share/postgresql83 --mandir=/opt/local/share/man --without-docdir --with-includes=/opt/local/include --with-libraries=/opt/local/lib --with-openssl --without-bonjour --with-readline --with-zlib --with-libxml --with-libxslt --enable-thread-safety --enable-integer-datetimes --with-ossp-uuid

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

See also #58630.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

While we should fix this, is there a good reason why you need postgresql83? It is highly obsolete. The current version is postgresql12.

[drjlevi6]

postgresql83 was a dependency of one of the ports I was trying to install yesterday, I believe either gs, gv or ghostscript. Unfortunately, it appears to have been at the end of a chain of dependencies of one of these, and I can't tell which.

[barracuda156]

It should likely use openssl 1.0.

Too many ports were broken by MacPorts-wide switches to a newer version of something without checking if that actually works.

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

openssl10 is the missing dependency, because configure checks for SSL_library_init():

configure:7592: checking for SSL_library_init in -lssl
configure:7622: /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 -no-cpp-precomp -o conftest -pipe -Os -arch ppc -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include/ossp -I/opt/local/include/libxml2  -I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -arch ppc -L/opt/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib  -L/opt/local/lib conftest.c -lssl  -lcrypto -lz -lreadline -lm  >&5
Undefined symbols:
  "_SSL_library_init", referenced from:
      _main in cckBIV4r.o
ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:7628: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h.  */
| 
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "PostgreSQL"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "postgresql"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "8.3.23"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "PostgreSQL 8.3.23"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org"
| #define PG_VERSION "8.3.23"
| #define USE_INTEGER_DATETIMES 1
| #define DEF_PGPORT 5432
| #define DEF_PGPORT_STR "5432"
| #define PG_VERSION_STR "PostgreSQL 8.3.23 on powerpc-apple-darwin9.8.0, compiled by GCC powerpc-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5577)"
| #define ENABLE_THREAD_SAFETY 1
| #define PG_KRB_SRVNAM "postgres"
| #define USE_BONJOUR 1
| #define USE_SSL 1
| #define USE_LIBXML 1
| #define USE_LIBXSLT 1
| #define PG_VERSION_NUM 80323
| #define HAVE_LIBM 1
| #define HAVE_LIBREADLINE 1
| #define HAVE_LIBZ 1
| #define HAVE_SPINLOCKS 1
| #define HAVE_LIBCRYPTO 1
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| 
| /* Override any GCC internal prototype to avoid an error.
|    Use char because int might match the return type of a GCC
|    builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
| #ifdef __cplusplus
| extern "C"
| #endif
| char SSL_library_init ();
| int
| main ()
| {
| return SSL_library_init ();
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:7654: result: no
configure:7664: error: library 'ssl' is required for OpenSSL

This sis similar to #71786.

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

postgresql84 has the correct dependency and enters the build stage:

Full Name: postgresql84 @8.4.22_7
Extract Dependencies: lbzip2
Build Dependencies:   bison
Library Dependencies: readline, openssl10, zlib, libxml2, libxslt, ossp-uuid

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

With a little change, bringing postgresql83's Portfile closer to that of postgresql84, postgresql83 configures, builds, installs, and tests fine.

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

Since postgresql84 exists, builds, and is supported by select this could be removed?

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

The case is similar to #71787.

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

A similar failure happens on PPC Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4.11. Obviously openssl10 is needed, not openssl.

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

Main.log from PPC Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4.11

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

Config.log from PPC Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4.11