In message <20151222122349.916552ojkzhe5...@www.polarhome.com> on Tue, 22 Dec 2015 12:23:49 +0100, Zoltan Arpadffy <z...@polarhome.com> said:
zoli> Hi, zoli> zoli> > zoli> I am aware that having perl installed on a modern operating zoli> > system is zoli> > zoli> not a very tough requirement - but experience shows that zoli> > external zoli> > zoli> dependencies often cause problems on OpenVMS. zoli> > zoli> > For perl, it's not that hard: zoli> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmsperlkit/files/ zoli> zoli> > (unfortunately, "cpan install Text::Template" doesn't work because zoli> > there's a lack of action lines in the test: target it its Makefile, zoli> > and mms isn't too happy about that...) zoli> zoli> > So, uhmm, nah. Frankly, it's time (it's been time for long) for the zoli> > OpenVMS community to catch up with the rest of the world re open zoli> > source building... zoli> zoli> Please, do not misunderstand me - I am on your side and I would be the zoli> most happy if that would work. zoli> zoli> But there is a problem: zoli> The files currently featured are kits for installing zoli> Perl 5.22.1 on OpenVMS Alpha or Itanium v8.3 and later. (from the home zoli> page)... but many OpenVMS systems are not on v8.3 yet. There are older kits in the Archive folder. I don't know for the moment what VMS version they're built for. zoli> This is not good - I know. But this is a fact we need to face when we zoli> develop for this system. That's tough, unfortunately... I've only access to a V8.4 cluster (Alpha and IA64), so I don't know how to help you further. Of course, there's the option to build perl from source, which isn't very hard at all (I've done so a few times). zoli> One descript.mms file would be enough. Thank you for asking :) zoli> MMS/MMK accepts parameters that could be used within the descript file zoli> making possible the different choices - if it is written on that way, zoli> especially that architecture and some other parameters can be zoli> successfully guessed within the MMS file. Well, the aim is to have a common structure to build from on all architectures we claim to support. You've seen for yourself how the scripts for VMS builds were lagging behind, and quite frankly, it's hellish to keep them up to date (I've completely dropped the ball for 1.1). That's not something I'm willing to have us do all over again. zoli> > zoli> > zoli> Do you need some help with coding, testing? zoli> > zoli> > I'll have a branch in g...@github.com:levitte/openssl.git zoli> > I'll get back when it starts going live. zoli> zoli> Thank you, Richard. zoli> I am looking forward to help you. Thanks :-) -- 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