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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 10:36:48 +0200
From: Albert Veli <albert.veli@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Compilation JTR mac

There are many homebrew users that stumble on exactly this issue. I think
we should add the homebrew OpenSSL location to the search path. At least if
it detects we are running under Darwin.

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:38 PM magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com> wrote:

> On 2018-08-29 20:44, xxx xxx wrote:
> > Hi Magnum
> >
> > Why does not john the ripper search for what he needs?
> >
> > We just want to type "install" and that's it!
>
> The configure script does search in a number of standard places (most
> notably /usr/include and /usr/local/include but also a few more IIRC)
> and it works fine on most other OS's as far as I know. I have no idea
> why Homebrew and perhaps some others opt not to place it in
> /usr/local/include (OK admittedly I do know but I don't agree and it's
> another story).
>
> We can't just go searching the whole file space - that could take AGES
> and there's also the chance we'd end up using some version that was not
> meant to be used, like down a 7 year old backup folder of your
> sister-in-law's ex-boyfriend's old PC. Obviously we could search
> whatever would be the canonical place for explicitly finding Homebrew
> libs, but IMHO *they* should fix it. Or perhaps I'm missing some clever
> detail?
>
> On a side note there's a Homebrew package called john-jumbo but I
> believe that's the pre-archaic 1.8.0-jumbo-1 so better stay away from
> that. In this case they'd be better off using latest snapshot at any
> given time instead.
>
> > I don’t want read complex code, I’M STILL NEWBIE (since 2010) :)
>
> We know. Somehow you always make me smile :-)
>
> magnum
>
>
> >> Le 29 août 2018 à 20:25, magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com> a écrit :
> >>
> >> On 2018-08-29 20:02, xxx xxx wrote:
> >>> I’m back,
> >>
> >> Great!
> >>
> >>> I would like compile JTR on Mac (OS X High Sierra 10.13.6 (17G65))
> >>> I have openSSL installed
> >>> iMac-de-xxx:~ xxx$ openssl version
> >>> OpenSSL 1.0.2p  14 Aug 2018
> >>> I get this error :
> >>> configure: error: in
> `/Users/xxx/Desktop/JohnTheRipper-bleeding-jumbo/src':
> >>> configure: error: JtR requires libssl being installed
> >>> See `config.log' for more details
> >>> Could you help ?
> >>
> >> You probably need to tell ./configure where your OpenSSL headers are
> located. There's an example for macOS in the last section of doc/INSTALL.
> >>
> >> magnum
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>

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