VMS documentation fixes

This mostly clarifies details.

Fixes #13789

Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/13834)

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index f5118428b3bca222782ba43d01c0c3199a899e33..f3ac727183f0d01bc2615024855e008a583a95eb 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -106,8 +106,7 @@
  This will build and install OpenSSL in the default location, which is:
 
   Unix:    normal installation directories under /usr/local
-  OpenVMS: SYS$COMMON:[OPENSSL-'version'...], where 'version' is the
-           OpenSSL version number with underscores instead of periods.
+  OpenVMS: SYS$COMMON:[OPENSSL]
   Windows: C:\Program Files\OpenSSL or C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenSSL
 
  The installation directory should be appropriately protected to ensure
@@ -116,7 +115,9 @@
  your Operating System it is recommended that you do not overwrite the system
  version and instead install to somewhere else.
 
- If you want to install it anywhere else, run config like this:
+ If you want to install it anywhere else, run config like this (the options
+ --prefix and --openssldir are explained further down, and the values shown
+ here are mere examples):
 
   On Unix:
 
@@ -198,7 +199,7 @@
                    Unix:           /usr/local
                    Windows:        C:\Program Files\OpenSSL
                                 or C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenSSL
-                   OpenVMS:        SYS$COMMON:[OPENSSL-'version']
+                   OpenVMS:        SYS$COMMON:[OPENSSL]
 
   --release
                    Build OpenSSL without debugging symbols. This is the default.
@@ -961,9 +962,9 @@
          share/doc/openssl/html/man7
                         Contains the HTML rendition of the man-pages.
 
-       OpenVMS ('arch' is replaced with the architecture name, "Alpha"
-       or "ia64", 'sover' is replaced with the shared library version
-       (0101 for 1.1), and 'pz' is replaced with the pointer size
+       OpenVMS ('arch' is replaced with the architecture name, "ALPHA"
+       or "IA64", 'sover' is replaced with the shared library version
+       (0101 for 1.1.x), and 'pz' is replaced with the pointer size
        OpenSSL was built with):
 
          [.EXE.'arch']  Contains the openssl binary.

diff --git a/NOTES.VMS b/NOTES.VMS
index c82e231ad72a077e1228a1b599a603f4de6363a3..bb226da310c5153a82223d26428bf14019aba9ee 100644 (file)
--- a/NOTES.VMS
+++ b/NOTES.VMS
@@ -90,9 +90,9 @@
  Unix mount point.
 
  The easiest way to check if everything got through as it should is to
- check for one of the following files:
+ check that this file exists:
 
-   [.crypto]opensslconf^.h.in
+   [.include.openssl]opensslconf^.h.in
 
  The best way to get a correct distribution is to download the gzipped
  tar file from ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/, use GZIP -d to uncompress
@@ -105,3 +105,11 @@
  Should you need it, you can find UnZip for VMS here:
 
    http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html
+
+
+ How the value of 'arch' is determined
+ -------------------------------------
+
+ 'arch' is mentioned in INSTALL.  It's value is determined like this:
+
+    arch = f$edit( f$getsyi( "arch_name"), "upcase")