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Troubleshooting “detected broken kqueue” on macOS

When attempting to compile a program using the Crystal compiler on macOS Sierra 10.12.1, I ran into the following error:

[warn] kq_init: detected broken kqueue; not using.: Undefined error: 0
[warn] kq_init: detected broken kqueue; not using.: Undefined error: 0
[warn] kq_init: detected broken kqueue; not using.: Undefined error: 0
[warn] kq_init: detected broken kqueue; not using.: Undefined error: 0
ld: library not found for -lssl
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

I solved the problem by reinstalling libevent:

brew update && brew reinstall libevent

…and then reinstalling the Xcode command-line tools:

xcode-select --install

Afterwards, I was able to run crystal -v and compile my program without any errors. 

Sources

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/2869