[ntp:questions] Re: VMS/UCX build?

Richard B. Gilbert rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Wed Dec 3 05:06:28 UTC 2003


Harlan,

In the configure source, I found lines referencing VMS/Alpha with  "# 
HMS will not be recognized".  That does, in fact, seem to be the case.  
It does correctly identify the hardware and software but appears 
clueless about doing anything with the information.


Harlan Stenn wrote:

>Dave,
>
>"configure" recognizes some VMS hosts; I figure somebody has done this
>with auto* before, perhaps in a cross-compile environment.
>
>H
>--
>In article <3FCCCCCB.7D1666EC at udel.edu>, David L. Mills <mills at udel.edu> wrote:
>  
>
>>Harlan,
>>
>>VMS is not Unix, not even close. It's not as far out as mainframe IBM,
>>but further out than DOS. There's a version of ntpdate for VMS via the
>>NTP project page, but that's ten years old and untested. The ports I
>>know of to VMS and Cray Research were made prior to autoconfigure. I
>>conclude that porting the autoconfigure version to a non-Unix system a
>>nonstarter at best.
>>    
>>




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