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Re: PATCH: A fix to allow OpenVMS to (HTTP) POST data larger than64K...

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:20:06 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Marty Kuhrt wrote:

>> That would be awesome! Another interesting task for you would be to setup an
>> autobuild for VMS: http://curl.haxx.se/auto/.
>
> You are correct, I haven't looked into doing the tests due to lack of time.
> As for autobuilds, I'm not sure how much effort it would take to make it
> automatic. I haven't seen an autoconfig that works well on VMS. That's not
> to say there isn't one, I just haven't seen it. Currently the build is a
> brute force build that usually requires a bit of tinkering in the
> config-vms.h file.

We already do "brute force" builds on other systems without configure, such as
MSVC on win32 and Netware. The "only" thing that is required is that the
tests/testcurl.pl script is modified to accept an argument that says you're
using VMS and then you'd do the commands in there using VMS-style...

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Received on 2004-06-14