other/931: VMS support looks bitrotten

[Joseph Myers <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>]

>Number:         931
>Category:       other
>Synopsis:       VMS support looks bitrotten
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Nov 29 11:56:00 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Joseph S. Myers
>Release:        2.97 20001129 (experimental)
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
System: Linux decomino 2.2.17 #1 Mon Sep 4 20:22:16 UTC 2000 i686 unknown
Architecture: i686

	
host: i686-pc-linux-gnu
build: i686-pc-linux-gnu
target: i686-pc-linux-gnu
configured with: ../gcc-cvs/configure --prefix=/opt/gcc/snapshot --disable-shared --enable-threads=posix --with-system-zlib
>Description:

It looks like the support for building GCC on VMS (gcc/makefile.vms,
etc.) is bitrotten and wouldn't work with current GCC.  However, while
the files are there they consume time on things such as getting rid of
obsolete EGCS references.

This PR is simply to record the probable existence of this issue and
get it off my own list of issues, since I didn't get approval for
removing the bitrotten makefile.vms.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

(a) Clearly document (in the manual and the online installation
instructions) that though the distribution contains historical VMS
support, it is bitrotten.

(b) Then, probably suspend this PR.

(c) If anyone cares to resurrect the VMS support, it would probably
make sense to find some way it can use the Unix makefiles rather than
needing its own, to avoid this problem of the build procedures falling
behind GCC.
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