Downstream build broken after openssl 3.3.1 upgrade about ocaml-ssl HOT 6 CLOSED

Could you provide more information about your issue? So far this and #153 seem like homebrew problems which should rather be reported in their issue tracker.

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@jonsterling if you still have a broken system, this is easy to debug:

• clone this repo
• run dune build
• check _build/default/src/c_library_flags.sexp to see if they have the expected paths

post the results here

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@anmonteiro Thanks! And sorry if this is not caused by ssl. The issue I have is a linker error. For example, one month ago, homebrew upgraded my system openssl installation from 3.2.1 to 3.3.0. After this upgrade, any OCaml builds that depended on the ssl library would fail with an error like the following:

	ld: warning: search path '/opt/homebrew/Cellar/openssl@3/3.2.1/lib' not 
found
	ld: warning: search path '/opt/Homebrew/Cellar/openssl@3/3.1.2/lib' not 
found
	ld: library 'ssl' not found
	clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see 
invocation)
	File "caml_startup", line 1:
	Error: Error during linking (exit code 1)

Interestingly, after running opam upgrade, this problem resolved itself — but I cannot figure out what exactly happened to fix it. This is the reason that I think, even if this is the Homebrew packagers' fault ultimately, there is seemingly some kind of opam involvement — which led me to post on this package's ticket tracker.

Note that this happened again yesterday, when homebrew upgraded my openssl from 3.3.0 to 3.3.1. Unfortunately, running opam upgrade did not solve the problem like it did last time (and I guess I have no reason to believe it would have solved it, given that I still do not understand the mechanism by which the problem resolved itself last time).

Sorry for all the vagueness here — it's inherently very hard to nail down what is happening because we are dealing with a problem that involves a combination of edge cases in several tools and libraries, on a platform that (apparently) very few OCaml programmers use.

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If you do think that there is no way for this to be related to the ssl opam package, please feel free to close this ticket and accept my apologies for the noise.

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Thanks very much for the suggestion! I will see if I can do this.

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Unfortunately, I can no longer reproduce this issue. Closing ticket, as I don't think there is anything that can be done at this time (and it's likely homebrew's fault).

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