Hi all, so, here you are: all the patches (against the 3.1.6 version downloaded from SourceForge) needed to get ht://Dig flying on VMS. Unfortunately, even the ZIPped version of the diff file is 60k, which prohibits appending it to a mail message, so I put it up for anonymous FTP download on ftp.pdv-systeme.de in vms/htdig-3_1_6-orig-vms_diff.zip
Some comments: - I set up a top-level directory `build_vms' for almost all of the VMS specific files (except the Makefiles, called DESCRIP.MMS by default). - I included zlib-1.1.4 and rx-1.5 under build_vms/ because I wanted a standalone source kit. - All the *IVP* and *PCSI* stuff is there to build/install a distribution kit. - I included all BerkeleyDB patches from SleepyCat. This gets libdb to 2.6.4-pl10. - I set up libdb to build as a shareable image (errr... what's that in Unixland? - .so?). - htcommon/wordlist.cc : The tempfile gets opened once and stays open for the rest of the program run (while being secured against opening a different one). That change alone cut htdig run time in half! - htdig/retriever.cc:682 : I had (almost immediately after publication ;-) a request from a guy wanting to index https URLs. - htlib/vms_access.c : The VMS C RTL access() routine doesn't take into account all the access mechanisms of VMS, in particular access via privileges and via ACLs <sigh> - htlib/configuration.cc : The VMS C RTL does cope with Unix notation file specs quite nicely (which is a great relief in porting). Users, however, prefer VMS syntax ;-) So I convert VMS file specs. - htlib/dictionary.cc : I identified the Dictionary::hashCode routine as another performance bottleneck, and thought that a bit of assembler would do good here. It did, but only a few percent - sometimes I hate the Compaq C++ optimizer... - htlib/htwordtype.h : Compaq C++ doesn't like private static members. - htcommon/documentdb.cc : I just noticed that this patch to is not necessary any more (as there are no longer any sorting going on). cu, Martin -- OpenVMS: | Martin Vorlaender VMS & WNT programmer When you KNOW | work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] where you want | http://www.pdv-systeme.de/users/martinv/ to go today. | home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ htdig-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev
