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These logical names are used to make the C RTL change certain behaviors, sometimes to make it act more like Unix. While they can make life easier in some cases, they can be disruptive as well. When building and testing OpenSSL, the latter is the case, so we ask people to avoid using them. Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
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NOTES FOR THE OPENVMS PLATFORM
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Requirement details
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In addition to the requirements and instructions listed in INSTALL,
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this are required as well:
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* At least ODS-5 disk organization for source and build.
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Installation can be done on any existing disk organization.
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About ANSI C compiler
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An ANSI C compiled is needed among other things. This means that
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VAX C is not and will not be supported.
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We have only tested with DEC C (a.k.a HP VMS C / VSI C), compiling
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with a different ANSI C compiler may require some work.
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Please avoid using C RTL feature logical names DECC$* when building
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and testing OpenSSL. Most of all, they can be disruptive when
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running the tests, as they affect the Perl interpreter.
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About MMS and DCL
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MMS has certain limitations when it comes to line length, and DCL has
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certain limitations when it comes to total command length. We do
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what we can to mitigate, but there is the possibility that it's not
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enough. Should you run into issues, a very simple solution is to set
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yourself up a few logical names for the directory trees you're going
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to use.
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Checking the distribution
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-------------------------
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There have been reports of places where the distribution didn't quite
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get through, for example if you've copied the tree from a NFS-mounted
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Unix mount point.
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The easiest way to check if everything got through as it should is to
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check for one of the following files:
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[.crypto]opensslconf^.h.in
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The best way to get a correct distribution is to download the gzipped
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tar file from ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/, use GZIP -d to uncompress
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it and VMSTAR to unpack the resulting tar file.
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Gzip and VMSTAR are available here:
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http://antinode.info/dec/index.html#Software
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Should you need it, you can find UnZip for VMS here:
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http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html
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