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Re: Drop VMS?
- To: zackw at stanford dot edu
- Subject: Re: Drop VMS?
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 01 10:37:56 EST
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
For instance, no one has bothered to update makefile.vms in ages;
That file will likely be dead, as will all the .com files.
the configuration parameters are hardwired in vms.h and xm-vms.h, and
appear to be wrong (this is the stuff that autoconf detects on Unix
hosts); the pathname parsing code doesn't have a clue how to do VMS
filename syntax; etc. But if it's under active maintenance in your
tree, the problems shouldn't be that hard to resolve.
There are patches around for GCC 2.8.1, but I never put them in because they
needed work. The best way to sync up is to do it with GCC 3.0 where VMS
will use bash and run configure and that's being actively worked on now,
but no patches are yet available.