[Privoxy-devel] macOS test failures

[Ian Silvester]

On Tue, 16 Jun 2026, at 11:47, Fabian Keil via Privoxy-devel wrote:
> Ian Silvester via Privoxy-devel <privoxy-devel at lists.privoxy.org> wrote 
> on 2026-06-15 at 14:36:51:
>
>> Okay I've confirmed that these four tests run successfully
>> once HTTPS inspection is correctly enabled.
>
> Great.
>
>> In doing so however I've realised I've made a mistake in using
>> Homebrew to install openssl. It puts libraries in a non-standard
>> location (beneath /opt/homebrew/) which I would then have to use
>> in the Privoxy installation, potentially competing with the end
>> user's own Homebrew setup.
>> 
>> I will need to go around the loop again with 'vanilla' openssl
>> to get the libraries to install under /usr/local/lib. I expect
>> to complete this by the end of next weekend.
>
> Do you intend to put the OpenSSL libraries in a privoxy-specific
> sub directory or is this not necessary to prevent conflicts with
> other packages that could contain OpenSSL libraries?

I intend to put them in /usr/local/lib, which is where the PCRE2 and Zstd libraries live by default. It's conceivable that other software might install one or more of these libraries here already, so I am relying on the library vendors for their forward/backward ABI compatibility. 

>> In the meantime, the Intel macOS release is available on my
>> mirror at https://silvester.org.uk/privoxy (as are the 4.2.0
>> sources and Debian releases). I'm uploading it to Sourceforge now.
>
> It's now available on the website as well and I regenerated
> the RSS feed after updating the script to deal with the added
> directory level for the architecture.
>
> Fabian
>
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