[Info-vax] GTK and/or up-to-date OpenVMS Porting Library for IA64?

[SMS]

John Reagan wrote:

> You can get an OpenVMS I64 SSL kit from
>
>     http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/ssl/ssl.html

   Yes, if I wanted something which "is based on OpenSSL 0.9.7e
and includes all of the latest security updates from
OpenSSL.org", where the definition of "latest" is a bit too
vague to be useful.  ("September 1, 2006"?)

> Where did you get that kit from?

http://www.openssl.org/

where it now says:

      07-Jan-2009:   OpenSSL 0.9.8j is now available, including
important bug fixes

Geez.  I'm already behind.

Specifically:

http://www.openssl.org/source/

I got the 0.9.8i kit.  It has VMS-specific builders, but
they're old and tired, and have too many tests for Alpha, and
not enough for non-VAX.  Some other odd stuff, too, like:

%DCL-W-UNDSYM, undefined symbol - check validity and spelling
 \APP_FILES\
%DCL-W-UNDSYM, undefined symbol - check validity and spelling
 \APP_FILES\

(apparently because someone sucked the definition of APP_FILES
out of [.apps]makeapps.com between 0.9.7% and 0.9.8%, but I
haven't looked into it enough yet to figure out why.)

And a couple of %CC-W-LONGEXTERN complaints which were easy
enough to solve in the builder (makevms.com) which generates
the VMS-specific config.h-like file
([.include.openssl]opensslconf.h).

   This stuff is version zero-point-something.  It changes.
It's nice that HP supplies something, but if it gets updated
only every few years, and the VMS-specific changes don't get
propagated back to the project maintainers, then the situation
might be seen as sub-ideal.

   But I'm a known whiner.  (And a non-paying one, at that.)