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.