Sometimes you go through a lot of pain trying to get something to work, and you just need to write it down and put it on the internet. You tell yourself this is useful; You're doing it so that others can find your words and solve the problem too. In reality, it's just cathartic. And who doesn't like a good rant?
So What Broke?
I recently updated my Mac to Mavericks (OS X 10.9). Overall, I like it...but it broke something I care about. It broke
libcurl's handling of certificates., and in so doing broke my install of WWW::Curl also (since it's a wrapper around the system libcurl.) This is remarkably hard to diagnose, because it just seems like the servers have suddenly stopped trusting each other (when in reality libcurl has just started effectively ignoring the options you're passing to it.)
Now, WWW::Curl (and its working certificate handling) is a dependency of some of the code I'm using. Worse than forcing me to disable certificate security, I actually need to identify myself to the server with my own cert. Just turning them off and running insecurely
won't work.
Installing libcurl
I'm not a great fan of installing software from source on my mac after having been bitten by fink and it's kin numerous times in the past. This said,
homebrew is actually pretty darn nifty, and can be used to install libcurl:
brew install curl
Wrrr, clunk, clunk and zap, I have a non broken
curl in
/usr/local/Cellar/gcc47/4.7.3/bin. Hooray! This one actually deems to listen to the command line options you pass it!
Installing WWW::Curl
Now all we have to do is install WWW::Curl and link it against this libcurl, right? Well, I did this:
wget http://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/S/SZ/SZBALINT/WWW-Curl-4.15.tar.gz
gunzip -c WWW-Curl-4.15.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
cd WWW-Curl-4.15
export CURL_CONFIG=/usr/local/Cellar/curl/7.33.0/bin/curl-config
perl Makefile.PL
And things started to go wrong:
The version is libcurl 7.33.0
Found curl.h in /usr/local/Cellar/curl/7.33.0/include/curl/curl.h
In file included from /usr/local/Cellar/curl/7.33.0/include/curl/curl.h:34:
In file included from /usr/local/Cellar/curl/7.33.0/include/curl/curlbuild.h:152:
In file included from /usr/include/sys/socket.h:80:
In file included from /usr/include/Availability.h:148:
/usr/include/AvailabilityInternal.h:4098:10: error: #else without #if
#else
^
/usr/include/AvailabilityInternal.h:4158:10: error: unterminated conditional directive
#if __MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED >= __MAC_10_6
^
/usr/include/AvailabilityInternal.h:4131:10: error: unterminated conditional directive
#if __MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED >= __MAC_10_5
^
/usr/include/AvailabilityInternal.h:4108:10: error: unterminated conditional directive
#if __MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED >= __MAC_10_4
^
4 errors generated.
Building curlopt-constants.c for your libcurl version
Building Easy.pm constants for your libcurl version
Building Share.pm constants for your libcurl version
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for WWW::Curl
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
That Ladies and Gentlemen is the sound of Apple's compiler sucking. You see, not so long ago I upgraded to XCode 5 and
apparently this no longer ships with gcc. Uh oh.
(I don't show the errors you get when you
make and
make test, but be assured it's all downhill from here)
Installing gcc
I suspect I could have just re-downloaded XCode 4 and then used
xcode-select. But I didn't. Let me know if that works, okay? This is what I actually did:
brew install gcc47
Then I waited a long time (while doing something else productive instead.) Finally when I was done I had to manually edit the Makefile.PL to use the right preprocessor:
perl -pi -e 's!cpp"!/usr/local/Cellar/gcc47/4.7.3/bin/cpp"!' Makefile.PL
perl Makefile.PL
(yeah, it'd be nice if they'd been some sort of option for that.) Then I altered the resulting Makefile for good measure too:
perl -pi -e 's{CC = cc}{CC = /usr/local/Cellar/gcc47/4.7.3/bin/gcc-4.7}' Makefile
And then I could build it all.
make
make test
Of course, it still got errors. But they're
not new errors. So I pretend I didn't see them and install anyway.
make install
I hate computers sometimes.