[R-pkg-devel] Problem compiling openssl package (FreeBSD stable/11)

[David Wolfskill]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 01:27:24PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>  ... 
> | And it appears that the local sources are ephemeral, so I can't
> | readily patch those sources to see if I can get it to work (as the
> | patched sources wouldn't be used) -- unless I miss the mark....
> | 
> | Any suggestions for how I might proceed?
> 
> I don't follow. Can you not use 'diff' and 'patch'?  I am so old that I have
> 
>    tar xvzf foo_1.2.3.tar.gz
>    mv foo foo.orig
>    tar xvzf foo_1.2.3.tar.gz
>    cd foo
>    /* now do your work */
>    cd .. && diff -ru foo.orig foo > foo.patch
> 
> fairly deeply engrained in muscle memory.  And R itself is in pretty tip-top
> shape and will listen to 'configure; make; make install'.  You probably can
> even skip make install as you are "just" fighting a failure to build.
> ....

OK; thanks (again!) for your hints. :-)

I was able puzzle through things enough to determine that re-invoking
install.packages() as

	install.packages("~/R/Rtmp4VjFtY/dhw/openssl", repos = NULL)

(in my case) would allow me to work with my copy of the sources; some
experimentation^Whacking later, I determined that the patch:

--- src/ssl.c.orig      2016-12-30 13:26:04.000000000 -0800
+++ src/ssl.c   2017-01-18 16:31:02.301226000 -0800
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 #if !defined(_WIN32) && !defined(__sun) && !defined(_POSIX_C_SOURCE)
 #define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200112L
 #endif
+#if defined(__FreeBSD__)
+#define __BSD_VISIBLE           1
+#endif
 
 #include <Rinternals.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>

appears to allow the build (& install) to complete successfully.

I have managed to report this to the openssl package author.

Thanks again!

Peace,
david
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