From 94b5fabe81fc1ee7a49a06db117ca2f2d1c80526 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 19:52:49 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-33791: Update README for macOS users (GH-7471) (cherry picked from commit ee994d7443a7e2809a5d49bd3679fc9c451a411b) Co-authored-by: atg7000 <38963069+atg7000@users.noreply.github.com> --- README.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 095cc4b0aa4..035fa786f76 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ You can pass many options to the configure script; run ``./configure --help`` to find out more. On macOS and Cygwin, the executable is called ``python.exe``; elsewhere it's just ``python``. +If you are running on macOS with the latest updates installed, make sure to install +openSSL or some other SSL software along with Homebrew or another package manager. +If issues persist, see https://devguide.python.org/setup/#macos-and-os-x for more +information. + On macOS, if you have configured Python with ``--enable-framework``, you should use ``make frameworkinstall`` to do the installation. Note that this installs the Python executable in a place that is not normally on your PATH,