Freebsd – You have security/openssl installed but do not have DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=ssl=openssl set in your make.conf

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On FreeBSD, ever since I installed openssl explicitly I have the following message when I install most ports that require openssl:

/!\ WARNING /!\
You have security/openssl installed but do not have DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=ssl=openssl set in your make.conf

As I'm fairly new to FreeBSD, I would like to know what's the meaning of the message and how I can adopt my configs to get rid of it.

Best Answer

Just run echo 'DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=ssl=openssl' >> /etc/make.conf (as root) if you really have installed security/openssl.

For users of an other port than security/openssl:

  • for security/openssl-devel: echo 'DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=ssl=openssl-devel' >> /etc/make.conf
  • for security/libressl: echo 'DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=ssl=libressl' >> /etc/make.conf
  • for security/libressl-devel: echo 'DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=ssl=libressl-devel' >> /etc/make.conf

To use/link openssl from your system (world): DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=ssl=base (default without installing any libressl* or openssl* port).

If you get the following error:

You have a /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so file installed, but the framework is unable to determine what port it comes from. Add DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=ssl= to your /etc/make.conf and try again.

And you don't know or can't remember which one you have installed, check the output of pkg info -ox "openssl|libressl", for example, to determine how to define ssl as DEFAULT_VERSIONS.

Note: OpenSSL implementation, using ports (not packages), can be switched at any time but:

  1. make sure programs that rely on it are compatible (few months ago, a port - I can't remember which one - was marked incompatible with libressl)
  2. each port which depends on it have to be rebuild (eg to switch from openssl to libressl: portmaster -o libressl openssl && portmaster -r libressl should do the trick)
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