On 12/02/2013 12:07 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:44:34 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
On 11/02/2013 1:04 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote:
To steer back to the topic at hand, there's a long list of UNIX-related
enhancements listed in the z/OS 2.1 Preview. Many/most of them match what
I'd like to see personally.
I didn't see a "long list"; merely the paragraph David quotes below.
Indeed, the following is interesting. If they are planning on
implementing stdio-ext then that will make porting the likes of
autotools much, much easier. And if autotools can be ported then so can
lots more FOSS that requires it.
Do you mean GNU autoconf/configure? One more thing I dearly
wish is gmake's VPATH.
Yes, the GNU build system.
"Additional file I/O programming interfaces for z/OS UNIX System
Services. These interfaces, while not part of a formal UNIX standard,
have been implemented on other UNIX platforms, and are planned to be
provided with a new header .
This is intended to make it improve the portability for these
applications between z/OS and other UNIX platforms."
You stated much more than I can infer from the paragraph you quoted.
Should I read further in the Preview for Timothy's "long list", or have you
another source of information?
I'm reading between the lines Paul. I and others that frequent this list
have tried to port more recent versions of autoconf etc only to bail
due to missing runtime funtions that are available on all the *other*
UNIX systems. For example, m4 requires the stdio extensions package
for functions like fpurge etc. IBM have implemented lots of extensions
to the C/C++ compiler for compatibility with gcc but the runtime let's
it down.
It looks like IBM have listened and are providing the tools that are
desperately needed to port recent open source software to z/OS. Building
ooRexx on z/OS should not be that difficult. Unfortunately one can't run
the configure script because it requires a version of autoconf that is
way beyond what we have, which is over 10 years old.
There was a blog discussion about it a few years back
http://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2009/04/what-more-open-source-software-do-you-want-for-zos.html
Thanks,
gil
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