[Privoxy-devel] macOS test failures

[Fabian Keil]

"Ian Silvester" <iansilvester at fastmail.fm> wrote on 2026-06-17 at 09:35:55:

> 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:

> >> 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. 

What happens if other software already installed libraries to the
same place as your Privoxy package, a user installs the Privoxy package
and then removes it again, for example to install an update?

Will this break the previously installed packages or is there some
dependency tracking that prevents libraries that are still needed
from being removed?

Fabian
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