From: Richard Levitte <rich...@levitte.org>

> I'll be honest with you; I've wanted to redo the whole build system
> for VMS so it can be automatically generated from the Unix makefiles,
> the same way the build system for Windows is made.  I can see some
> common building blocks that this would be generated from, similar to
> the crap that's repeated over all the current build scripts.  It's a
> pretty big job...

   My approach on projects like this has been to create a distinct set
of MMS description files (and command procedures) for VMS, because the
VMS environment is so different from a UNIX-like environment.  My stuff
generally offers automatically generated dependencies, but requires
manual intervention for changes like adding new source modules.  This
manual work can be pretty easy, when the builders are written in any
reasonably orderly way.  (As opposed to, say, the current scrambled
module lists, and so on.)

   A possibly comparable example would be cdrtools:

      http://antinode.info/ftp/cdrtools/

> The only thing I've lacked it *funded* time.  I only have so much
> non-funded time to spend...

   I had some time, and did some work, but it's hard to see why that
should continue.

> Zoltan.Arpadffy> As I am personally very interested that openssl runs
> Zoltan.Arpadffy> and builds correctly on OpenVMS, I am willing to
> Zoltan.Arpadffy> contribute... just wonder why this is not done so
> Zoltan.Arpadffy> far?
> 
> ;-) well, only you can say why you haven't contributed so far ;-)

   Yes, contribute, by all means.  Or just take a nap.  The results seem
to be comparable, except one way you get more sleep.

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