Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
>
> From: Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> ben> What's the deal with this object stuff in crypto/objects?
> ben> Rebuilding the headers according to the instructions in them
> ben> seems to have completely broken, err, something, as well as
> ben> deleting loads of entries.
>
> Uhmm, could you tell me what's missing? The best way to know is to
> compare the contents of objects.h (old) and obj_mac.h (new, included
> by objects.h for now).
If I rebuild obj_mac.h (and the other autobuilt one, forget the name
right now), then it loses lots of stuff, exactly what is readily
apparent by doing a cvs diff...
> The big deal is that when I added a large bunch of OIDs, I got sick
> and tired of all the things that needed to get done manually just to
> add those, so I tool up objects.txt, which was obviously made for
> this, just not completed, and did what I thought was the right thing
> then. As it is now, I see a number of things that weren't done quite
> right, which is why I'm looking at ways to redo it in a better and
> hopefully more flexible way.
I completely understand the motivation. I was wondering about two
things:
a) completeness
b) why it isn't automatically done in the Makefile (it was fixing this
that made me realise it didn't work as I expected)?
> There were a number of syntactic extras I put into objects.txt to get
> past some naming quirks that I found while working on it... The best
> way to find out what they do is currently to read objects.README and
> objects.pl...
I did that stuff by guesswork, but I don't know whether I got it right,
coz it didn't work anyway!
Cheers,
Ben.
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