Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > 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. >
It would me something to me, but unless there's a demand for it, I'd rather not take the time. I love VMS and still miss it, but it's not worth the effort without getting paid to do it. As I mentioned before OpenVMS has done a port of the 4.x code but I don't know where it stands. Danny _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
