# Ruby1.8.6, MacOSX Tiger and ssl

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby1-8-6-macosx-tiger-and-ssl/88772>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 14, 2007, 9:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby1-8-6-macosx-tiger-and-ssl/88772 "2007-03-14T09:02:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snowbug)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 9:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby1-8-6-macosx-tiger-and-ssl/88772/1 "2007-03-14T09:02:43Z")

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Hi folks,

I’ve a happily working 1.8.5 installed in /usr/local built according to  
the instructions at [hivelogic.com](http://hivelogic.com)  
[[Dan Benjamin](http://hivelogic.com/narrative/articles/ruby-rails-mongrel-mysql-osx)].

I’ve just tried to build 1.8.6 using effectively the same steps:

> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-pthread --with-readline-dir=/usr/local  
> make

But I get the following error:

cc -dynamic -bundle -undefined suppress -flat\_namespace -L"…/…" -o  
…/…/.ext/i686-darwin8.8.1/openssl.bundle openssl\_missing.o ossl.o  
ossl\_asn1.o ossl\_bio.o ossl\_bn.o ossl\_cipher.o ossl\_config.o  
ossl\_digest.o ossl\_engine.o ossl\_hmac.o ossl\_ns\_spki.o ossl\_ocsp.o  
ossl\_pkcs12.o ossl\_pkcs7.o ossl\_pkey.o ossl\_pkey\_dh.o ossl\_pkey\_dsa.o  
ossl\_pkey\_rsa.o ossl\_rand.o ossl\_ssl.o ossl\_x509.o ossl\_x509attr.o  
ossl\_x509cert.o ossl\_x509crl.o ossl\_x509ext.o ossl\_x509name.o  
ossl\_x509req.o ossl\_x509revoked.o ossl\_x509store.o -lssl -lcrypto  
-lpthread -ldl -lobjc  
/usr/bin/ld: can’t locate file for: -lssl  
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status  
make[1]: \*\*\* […/…/.ext/i686-darwin8.8.1/openssl.bundle] Error 1  
make: \*\*\* [all] Error 1

Can anyone help me with a pointer of what things I should be looking for  
? Is this a library I’m missing on my Mac, or something mac-general I  
should be specifiying in ./configure ?

Thanks in advance,

A.

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**Author:** ![snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snowbug)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 10:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby1-8-6-macosx-tiger-and-ssl/88772/2 "2007-03-14T10:32:28Z")

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Alan F. wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I’ve just tried to build 1.8.6 using effectively the same steps:
> 
> > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-pthread --with-readline-dir=/usr/local  
> > make
> 
> But I get the following error:

It turned out that trtying to ‘make’ simultaneously with doing an OS  
update is a bad idea.

All well now.

A.