Build of openssl-1.0.1-beta1 on OpenVOS

[Green, Paul]

I built openssl-1.0.1-beta1 on OpenVOS Release 17.1.0at using the
"vos-gcc" entry in Configure, along with some extra arguments (see
below).

It successfully built and passed all relevant self-tests.

However, several source files reference str(n)casecmp without including
<strings.h>. Since the implicit declaration of str(n)casecmp is
sufficient, I've just ignored this error.

                Details for the curious:

                The str(n)casecmp functions are XSI extensions to POSIX.
The POSIX standard only requires them to be declared in strings.h.  It
appears that the BSD variants of Unix declare them in <string.h>; this
header is commonly included within openssl. No openssl headers include
<strings.h>.  I have no idea whether all of the platforms supported by
openssl provide this header file, and so I'm not proposing to add it
now; perhaps it could be added in the HEAD development branch.

                The source files that reference str(n)casecmp in our
build are:
                        crypto/engine/tb_asnmth.c (line 192)
                        crypto/asn1/ameth_lib.c (line 234)
                        crypto/x509v3/v3_ncons.c (lines 408, 494)
                        apps/ca.c (line 2729)

Here is the output of Configure, omitting noise from setting various
environment variables:

perl Configure vos-gcc zlib no-threads no-shared no-asm no-dso no-krb5
no-hw \
   no-idea no-rc5 --prefix=/opt/openssl \
 
--with-zlib-lib=/Languages/Green/install_ssl/openssl/2.1.p4be/local/opt/
openssl/lib \
 
--with-zlib-include=/Languages/Green/install_ssl/openssl/2.1.p4be/local/
opt/openssl/include

Configuring for vos-gcc
    no-asm          [option]   OPENSSL_NO_ASM
    no-dso          [option]
    no-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128 [default]  OPENSSL_NO_EC_NISTP_64_GCC_128
(skip dir)
    no-gmp          [default]  OPENSSL_NO_GMP (skip dir)
    no-hw           [option]   OPENSSL_NO_HW
    no-idea         [option]   OPENSSL_NO_IDEA (skip dir)
    no-jpake        [experimental] OPENSSL_NO_JPAKE (skip dir)
    no-krb5         [krb5-flavor not specified] OPENSSL_NO_KRB5
    no-md2          [default]  OPENSSL_NO_MD2 (skip dir)
    no-rc5          [option]   OPENSSL_NO_RC5 (skip dir)
    no-rfc3779      [default]  OPENSSL_NO_RFC3779 (skip dir)
    no-sctp         [default]  OPENSSL_NO_SCTP (skip dir)
    no-shared       [option]
    no-store        [experimental] OPENSSL_NO_STORE (skip dir)
    no-threads      [option]
    no-zlib-dynamic [default]
...
ALL TESTS SUCCESSFUL.


Thanks
PG
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