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+Building XSLT under OpenVMS
+===========================
+
+Here's a summary of the issues I encountered when building XSLT under
+VMS.  I'd previously done the same for the LIBXML package, on which 
+XSLT depends.
+
+I present this list "as is" to hopefully act as a guide to anyone 
+having similar problems in the future.
+
+That's it.  Good luck!
+
+John A Fotheringham (jaf@jafsoft.com)
+November 2001
+
+
+Installation kit
+----------------
+
+- File attributes. When downloading essentially a Unix distribution, 
+  some of the file attributes may not be correct... especially those 
+  in the [.VMS] subdirectory.  In EDT you could see line feeds and 
+  carriage returns as <LF><CR> etc.  To correct this use the command
+
+	$ set file <filespec> /attr=rfm=stm
+
+  This sets the record format to be "stream".  Other variants may be 
+  used instead depending on how you got the files onto your system.  
+  Files will look okay in an EDT editor once the attributes are set.  
+  Without this the command file may not run correctly, since it may 
+  be interpreted as a single line.
+
+- VMS-specific files are in a [.VMS] directory.  If you've found 
+  this file then you already know this :-)  This directory contains
+
+    BUILD_XSLT.COM - a build command file
+    README.VMS     - these notes
+
+- Don't execute BUILD_LIBXML.COM until you've done all the 
+  following
+
+  - read these notes
+  - define the logicals XMLOLB and LIBXML
+  - copy CONFIG.H to [.libxslt] and [.libexslt]
+  - reviewed the configuration section of BUILD_XSLT.COM, and in 
+    particular update the module lists in line with MAKEFILE
+  - re-read these notes :-p
+
+  instructions for all these steps are below.
+
+- the XSLT package requires the LIBXML package to have been 
+  previously been installed.  The following logicals should be
+  defined
+
+  LIBXML - the directory containing LIBXML's .h files
+  XMLOLB - the directory to contain both the LIBXML and XSLT 
+           object libraries
+  
+- you'll need to copy config.h into the [.libxslt] and [.libexslt]
+  directories.  If in the future a VMS-specific version is created,
+  use [.vms]config.vms instead.
+
+- The command file BUILD_XSLT.COM will do the following
+
+  - setup and test some logicals
+  - set def to the source directory
+  - compile modules and place them into a LIBXSLT.OLB library
+  - compile modules and place them into a LIBEZSLT.OLB library
+  - compile and link the XSLTPROC program
+  - set def back to the original directory (i.e. if it fails you 
+    might not be where you started :-)
+
+  before running this command file review the configuration segment 
+  at the top.  In particular compare the lists of modules with those 
+  in the most recent version of MAKEFILE.IN files sound in the source
+  directories.  Instructions are contained in the command file itself.
+
+
+The TRIO package
+----------------
+- The libxml package uses a sub-package TRIO to provide some 
+  functions not naturally available under VMS.  These include support 
+  for infinite and undefined numbers, and specialised print functions 
+  like "snprintf"
+
+  To build this software we need to add
+
+	/IEEE_MODE=UNDERFLOW_TO_ZERO/FLOAT=IEEE 
+
+  to the compile command for xsltutils, and to any main program
+  that uses this functionality.  BUILD_XSLT.COM should do this 
+  for you.
+
+  Without this you are likely to get run-time errors like this
+
+    %SYSTEM-F-HPARITH, high performance arithmetic trap, Imask=00000000, 
+      Fmask=00000 400, summary=02, PC=000000000006A330, PS=0000001B
+    -SYSTEM-F-FLTINV, floating invalid operation, PC=000000000006A330, 
+      PS=0000001B
+
+  If this occurs you'll need to locate the modules that need the 
+  above switches applied
+
+
+Compiler and linker errors
+--------------------------
+
+- with respect to the TRIO package you'll get the error 
+
+    "no main module for UNDERFLOW_TO_ZERO"
+
+  You can suppress this "expected" messages by using the compile command
+
+    $ CC /WARN=DISABLE=(NOMAINUFLO)
+
+- the Linker will report the following error
+
+      %LINK-W-MULDEF, symbol DECC$STRERROR multiply defined
+        in module DECC$SHR file SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]DECC$SHR.EXE;5
+
+  This is complaining that DECC$STRERROR is multiply defined, which 
+  in turn is because this system symbol is getting added to LIBXML.OLB 
+  when strio.c was compiled in the libxml package.
+
+  I'm not sure what the solution for this is, but this is a fairly 
+  benign error.
+
+
+Changes made to the codebase
+----------------------------
+
+- In the module extensions.c the name 
+
+	xsltExtModuleElementPreComputeLookup 
+
+  is too long (more than 31 characters).  The solution has been 
+  to rename it to a shorter name on VMS builds, and to then 
+  create a #define that maps the longer name to the shorter name, 
+  so that all references to the longer name will work.
+
+  You may need to repeat this exercise with any future modules added.