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author | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2016-08-06 11:30:48 +0200 |
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committer | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2016-08-06 16:00:13 +0200 |
commit | e8fd2a4cb49c91e5af1608b3cd494e2a8cf02ae2 (patch) | |
tree | 4467d7078782ed1f4904e9aae485ba941a219472 | |
parent | ca1cb0d4346bfefe00ec5d240e99b95c8ab743af (diff) |
Add a note about a perl issue on VMS and how to work around it
I bug in perl's File::Spec->canonpath() was uncovered. There's
nothing we can do about it (except re-implementing canonpath()),
except working around the problem (a directory rename) and reporting
the issue to the perl module developers.
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
-rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | NOTES.VMS | 18 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ header files * a supported operating system - For additional platform specific requirements and other details, - please read one of these: + For additional platform specific requirements, solutions to specific + issues and other details, please read one of these: * NOTES.VMS (OpenVMS) * NOTES.WIN (any supported Windows) @@ -27,6 +27,24 @@ running the tests, as they affect the Perl interpreter. + About ODS-5 directory names and Perl + ------------------------------------ + + It seems that the perl function canonpath() in the File::Spec module + doesn't treat file specifications where the last directory name + contains periods very well. Unfortunately, some versions of VMS tar + will keep the periods in the OpenSSL source directory instead of + converting them to underscore, thereby leaving your source in + something like [.openssl-1^.1^.0]. This will lead to issues when + configuring and building OpenSSL. + + We have no replacement for Perl's canonpath(), so the best workaround + for now is to rename the OpenSSL source directory, as follows (please + adjust for the actual source directory name you have): + + $ rename openssl-1^.1^.0.DIR openssl-1_1_0.DIR + + About MMS and DCL ----------------- |