Harlan Stenn wrote: >>>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>writes: > > > Richard> Clearly > Richard> most vendors do not do this! In the case of OpenVMS it is > Richard> understandable since the reference implementation contains enough > Richard> "Unixisms" that it will not build on VMS (I've tried). > > While I do not know the particulars of OpenVMS, thre was code to support the > building of ntp on VMS (perhaps OpenVMS) and nobody has sent in updated > patches for a long time. > > If nobody intends to submit patches I would be happy to remove any old > fragments from the codebase. > > H
VMS Engineering did a port of 3-93 or 3-95 years ago and I don't think anyone has done anything since. I was unable to build a 4.x distribution on VMS using the POSIX shell; the scripts didn't work. Compiling things by hand didn't work either. I don't recall the details but there were calls to functions not part of the NTP distribution nor part of the Standard C Run Time Library. If you like, I can crank up the system, try it again and tell you where it barfed. I suspect though, that you have better things to do than assist in a port to a niche O/S like VMS. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
