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| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | NOTES.VMS | 18 |
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@@ -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 ----------------- |