Hi Richard,

I absolutely welcome the idea, that the build needs to be improved on
OpenVMS.
You have my full support and I'll help as much I can appreciate time-wise.

Currently, I am struggling to include OpenVMS architectures into a jenkins
farm that would at least warn for anomalies as soon they appear.

Thank you for the positive initiative.

Regards,
Z 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-openssl-...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl-...@openssl.org]
On Behalf Of Richard Levitte
Sent: den 14 augusti 2014 18:43
To: openssl-dev@openssl.org
Cc: s...@antinode.info; arpad...@polarhome.com
Subject: VMS building rework

Hey,

I've been thinking for the longest time that the VMS building system for VMS
needs to be remade from the ground up.  Time hasn't been with me, and I've
taken a fairly long pause, and I gave up VMS for a while, and...  I've got
plenty of less valid excuses that I'll keep for myself.

Time to take the bull by the horns, though.

Now that VMS seems to get a revival (if you haven't heard the news?
have a look here: http://vmssoftware.com/ ...) instead of certain death, it
might be time to update ourselves as well.

The current build system is based on the assumption that you have a the base
VMS installation with only a C compiler added.  No MMS, no MMK, no Perl, no
nothing.  The world doesn't look that way and hasn't for a long time, time
to catch up.

I've a fork of OpenSSL on github specifically for this, here:
https://github.com/levitte/openssl

Please join me, let's talk about what's needed, what tools we can expect
people to have available (more than just the basic operating system and a C
compiler), and what we can do, and make the needed changes.  Feel free to
fork my github repo, make changes and propose them.

(I've cc'd Steven M. Schweda and Zoltan Arpadffy, as they have been fairly
vocal as well as deservingly critical, and thereby hopefully interested, but
others are free to join as well)

Cheers,
Richard

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Richard Levitte                         rich...@levitte.org
                                        http://richard.levitte.org/

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-- from a friend's blog, translated from Swedish
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