VMS before V8.3 did not support symlinks, so VMSTAR typically
extracted symlinks as text files containing a message with the link
text. This tended to create useless junk in "./include/openssl/"
instead of useful symlinks to actual header files. The "makevms.com"
procedure worked around this by copying all the important header files
from their original locations into "./include/openssl/", and then
purging out the old, useless link text files.
A modern VMSTAR can extract actual symlinks on a VMS V8.3 or later
system. If this was done, then the old "makevms.com" would try to copy
the actual header files onto the symlinks, which created duplicate
(new-version) header files back in their original locations, which was
wasteful and confusing.
A new "makevms.com" will delete all the header files (or symlinks,
real or fake) in "./include/openssl/" before trying to copy in the real
header files. This should work with any combination of VMSTAR and VMS.
(I think. Complaints are always welcome.)
http://antinode.info/ftp/openssl/1_0_0d/openssl-1_0_0d_s3c.zip
Someday we could make a regular product out of this thing.
SMS.
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