[R-SIG-Mac] Installing openssl package in R-devel

[Duncan Murdoch]

Okay, I've figured out the previous issue.  The openssl package 
configure script dies if it doesn't have openssl version 3, while 
install.libs() provides version 1.1.

So I followed the advice to install from Homebrew, and the configure 
succeeded, but the install still failed:

> ** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
> Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘openssl’ in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...):
>  unable to load shared object '/Users/murdoch/R/R-devel/library/00LOCK-openssl/00new/openssl/libs/openssl.so':
>   dlopen(/Users/murdoch/R/R-devel/library/00LOCK-openssl/00new/openssl/libs/openssl.so, 0x0006): symbol not found in flat namespace '_EVP_CIPHER_CTX_get_block_size'
> Error: loading failed
> Execution halted
> ERROR: loading failed
> * removing ‘/Users/murdoch/R/R-devel/library/openssl’

Any suggestions?

Duncan Murdoch

On 2024-07-21 2:11 p.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> I'm trying to install the openssl package on an M3 Mac in R-devel.  It
> keeps failing with these messages:
> 
>> * installing *source* package ‘openssl’ ...
>> ** package ‘openssl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>> ** using staged installation
>> Homebrew >=4.1.0 (shallow or no git repository)
>> Using PKG_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include
>> --------------------------- [ANTICONF] --------------------------------
>> Configuration failed because openssl was not found. Try installing:
>>   * deb: libssl-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)
>>   * rpm: openssl-devel (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL)
>>   * csw: libssl_dev (Solaris)
>>   * brew: openssl (Mac OSX)
>> If openssl is already installed, check that 'pkg-config' is in your
>> PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains a openssl.pc file. If pkg-config
>> is unavailable you can set INCLUDE_DIR and LIB_DIR manually via:
>> R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars='INCLUDE_DIR=... LIB_DIR=...'
> 
> I did install the openssl lib using Simon's install.libs() function from
> https://mac.r-project.org/bin/, and I do have pkg-config installed in
> /opt/R/arm64/bin and I see this:
> 
> $ pkg-config openssl --cflags
> -I/opt/R/arm64/include
> 
> So I don't know where the openssl config is finding the Homebrew info.
> Can someone suggest what I need to do to get this to work?
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> 
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