topic Re: Indetification/Build_identification in Operating System - OpenVMS

Indetification/Build_identification

Willem Grooters — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:29:32 GMT

IA64, VMS 8.3-1H1, Pascal V6.1-116

Given an image "image.exe", linked without options ion identification:

$ ANA/IMA/SELECT=(IDENT,BUILD) image.exe
(full-spec om image file)
"01"
""

Obviously, symbol ANALYZE$IDENTIFICATION is "01" and ANALYZE$BUILD_IDENTIFICATION is ""

I know I can set IDENTIFICATION to another value specifying IDENTIFICATIOPN= in the link option file, but how do I set BUILD_IDENTIFICATION to another value? I couldn't find it in the LINK manual...

Re: Indetification/Build_identification

kari salminen — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:04:55 GMT

You add this line in the Linker .OPT file

BUILD_IDENT="my_string"

Re: Indetification/Build_identification

Hoff — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:33:11 GMT

AFAIK, this stuff is reserved for HP.

If you want to adjust it, set this via the PCSI installation and particularly the generation setting. (This is how PCSI tries to avoid regressions.)

Or yes, via a linker directive.

Re: Indetification/Build_identification

Willem Grooters — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:52:22 GMT

Reserved for HP...That explains why setting this element is undocumented (up to today).