From db6a9aaa44cc8e0cfe1a0823c74ddf0388af0c8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Allen Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 21:49:19 -0500 Subject: Ask homebrew for openssl location if available --- README.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 4b65f31..640e545 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -440,8 +440,24 @@ Prints the available builds and installations as well as the currently active in ---------- No Erlang/OTP kerl installation is currently active + +Compiling crypto on Macs +------------------------ +Apple stopped shipping OpenSSL in OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) in favor of Apple's +own SSL library. That makes using homebrew the most convenient way to install +openssl on macOS 10.12 (Sierra) or El Capitan. Recently, homebrew [decided to +stop creating](https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/612) symlinks from the +homebrew installation directory to `/usr/local`, so in response to this, *if* +you running El Capitan or Sierra, *and* you have homebrew installed, *and* you +used it to install openssl, kerl will ask homebrew for the openssl installation +prefix and configure Erlang to build with that location automatically. + +**Important**: If you already have `--with-ssl` in your .kerlrc, kerl +will honor that instead, and will not do any automatic configuration. + Changelog --------- + 20 July 2016 - 1.3.2 - Optionally enhance the activation prompt (#149) -- cgit v1.2.3