Re: El Capitan Removes OpenSSL Headers

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: El Capitan Removes OpenSSL Headers
Date: 2015-12-01 21:19:08
Message-ID: 20151201211908.GB18060@momjian.us
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On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 03:35:39PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> > Well, you'd have to use MacPorts' version of the openssl libraries,
> > too, since there'd be no certainty that their headers match the
> > Apple-provided libraries (in fact, I'd bet a lot that they don't).
> > This would be a pain if you wanted to put your compiled PG executables
> > on some other Mac.
>
> Yeah, I guess it means that people building for MacOS X will probably
> have to ship OpenSSL as a dependency, which also means that they will
> need to update it when new versions are released. That is already a
> pretty obnoxious disease on Windows, and it's unfortunate to see it
> spreading. It would save us a good deal of staff time here at
> EnterpriseDB if we didn't have to do new releases of everything on
> Windows every time there is an OpenSSL update.

Do we still have licensing issues if we ship Postgres and OpenSSL
together?

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