In message <20151222111022.44086nc6688vq...@www.polarhome.com> on Tue, 22 Dec 2015 11:10:22 +0100, Zoltan Arpadffy <z...@polarhome.com> said:
zoli> Richard, zoli> zoli> > My plan for "new and shiny" is based on perl, running Configure and zoli> > have it generate a top level descrip.mms. Requirements will be a perl zoli> > installation (minimum version 5.12) plus Text::Template. zoli> zoli> Thank you for the information. zoli> zoli> I am aware that having perl installed on a modern operating system is zoli> not a very tough requirement - but experience shows that external zoli> dependencies often cause problems on OpenVMS. For perl, it's not that hard: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmsperlkit/files/ zoli> I would suggest to include/commit the perl scripts into the OpenSSL zoli> source code (for developers convenience only), but they should be ran zoli> and commit the OpenVMS descrip.mms build files matching the current zoli> code base - as a step in the OpenSSL source code release process. I was thinking that it might be a good idea to bundle Text::Template, if that's what you meant. We try to make sure to only use core perl modules, but considering there's no template module among the core ones and I hardly want to reinvent the wheel, I might make an exception there. I haven't decided, though, it's not like it's very hard to do a "cpan download Text::Template" and then install it (unfortunately, "cpan install Text::Template" doesn't work because there's a lack of action lines in the test: target it its Makefile, and mms isn't too happy about that...) zoli> Unix make files are also made in forehand. Right? Nope. zoli> What is your opinion about this? Considering there's Alpha, IA64 and VSI is building VMS for x86_64, and let's not forget pointer size options, the different possible configurations is already not a small number, and will only increase. How many variants of descrip.mms did you want? So, uhmm, nah. Frankly, it's time (it's been time for long) for the OpenVMS community to catch up with the rest of the world re open source building... or for someone to produce OpenSSL install kits (it's possible that the vms-ports effort will do so, possibly by yours truly... no promises, though). zoli> > zoli> Do you need some help with coding, testing? zoli> > zoli> > Yes please. zoli> zoli> Please, let me know how... or should I just wait for the make files zoli> release? I'll have a branch in g...@github.com:levitte/openssl.git I'll get back when it starts going live. Cheers, Richard -- Richard Levitte levi...@openssl.org OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/ _______________________________________________ openssl-dev mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-dev