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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven M. Schweda s...@antinode-info 382 South Warwick Street (+1) 651-699-9818 Saint Paul MN 55105-2547 ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org