On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 07:29:59 -0500, John McKown wrote: > >Honestly, I am so angry with whomever in the C language (or maybe LE) >group who made that <sarcastic> clever </sarcastic> __new4201() C >macro that I could pummel them. Or are they deliberately trying to >make it difficult to use GNU software? Stinking "vendor lock in". I am >basically enraged with such "clever" programmers. And I will stop >typing before I say something _really_ nasty. > And IBM uses metacharacters in places that upset configure.
The GNU build process, especially with multiple target platforms, is most useful if VPATH is available. Most non-POSIX "make"s, such as gmake, support VPATH. IBM's POSIX make doesn't. So gmake is practically a prerequisite. And some time ago, I failed in an attempt to configure coreutils on z/OS because (at least) getmntent() was unavailable. I was able to code an interface to getmntent(), and put it in an archive; I don't know how to feed it to configure and gmake. And I want it to work in Enhanced ASCII mode, so I needn't ferret out and bypass ASCII dependencies, and so one needn't contend with such as Guido van Rossum, opinionated though he is, who's attitude toward incorporating EBCDIC support is essentially, "Go fork yourself!" -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
