[GNC] Finance::Quote on a Mac with a foreign perl

[Bruce Schuck]

On Sat Apr 27, 2024 at 21:13:22 Mr. Ralls wrote:

> I just remembered a third case that's probably the same problem: 
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799195 complained that it 
> took 15 minutes to install the F::Q dependencies and the attempt 
> ultimately failed because SSLeay failed its unit tests.

I concur. I also have some agreement with Mr. Williams who opened that 
bug. While I understand doing the quote retrieval natively in GnuCash 
would be problematic for how much they need to be changed (especially 
recently), I am at least slightly surprised there hasn't been an effort 
to replace F::Q with something written in Python or another language.

> macOS is macOS. They don't change anything for the hardware, not
> even the build: Everything in the OS is universal binaries with
> x86_64 snd arm64. It's possible that Xcode/command-line tools adds
> stuff to /System/Library/Perl/Extras, but the user said he has both 
> installed. I've asked him about what year MBA and what version of 
> macOS. Perhaps there's a clue there.

I get the macOS is macOS thing. But I've ended up down too many rabbit 
holes because of assumptions that turned out wrong. I would find it odd 
that XCode would know to add stuff for Perl, but again, I don't want to 
assume it doesn't.

As for XCode command line tools being installed, I would think if they 
were, then wouldn't the libssl header files that the user's cpan output 
indicated were missing *not* be missing? It's been a while since I 
installed Xcode and the extra XCode bits on either of the Macs in my 
possession.

Take care sir. I think it's time for my scotch nightcap.