Document that libssl is needed, not just OpenSSL #116461
Description
Bug description:
I installed python from source and i am not able to use pip because it uses ssl and my system is missing libssl , i got to know that it is missing by looking at config.log
One of my friend got confused by the error message why pip suddenly starts throwing this error ?
➜ cpython git:(main) ✗ python3 -m pip install flask
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
WARNING: pip is configured with locations that require TLS/SSL, however the ssl module in Python is not available.
WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError("Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.")': /simple/flask/current message from make
The following modules are *disabled* in configure script:
_sqlite3
The necessary bits to build these optional modules were not found:
_bz2 _ctypes _ctypes_test
_curses _curses_panel _dbm
_gdbm _hashlib _lzma
_ssl _tkinter _uuid
readline
To find the necessary bits, look in configure.ac and config.log.
Could not build the ssl module!
Python requires a OpenSSL 1.1.1 or newer
Checked 111 modules (33 built-in, 63 shared, 1 n/a on linux-x86_64, 1 disabled, 13 missing, 0 failed on import)
it's saying python require Python requires a OpenSSL 1.1.1 or newer it is there, it should say we need libssl as _ssl is dependent on it
I got to know about this after checking the config.log file
configure:27790: checking for pkg-config
configure:27822: result: /usr/bin/pkg-config
configure:27869: checking for include/openssl/ssl.h in /usr/local/ssl
configure:27880: result: no
configure:27869: checking for include/openssl/ssl.h in /usr/lib/ssl
configure:27880: result: no
configure:27869: checking for include/openssl/ssl.h in /usr/ssl
configure:27880: result: no
configure:27869: checking for include/openssl/ssl.h in /usr/pkg
configure:27880: result: no
configure:27869: checking for include/openssl/ssl.h in /usr/local
configure:27880: result: no
configure:27869: checking for include/openssl/ssl.h in /usr
configure:27880: result: no
CPython versions tested on:
CPython main branch
Operating systems tested on:
Linux