Jack Woehr wrote: > David Crayford wrote: > >> We've >> submitted a project proposal (o4z-gnutools) to SourceForge so we can >> start working on this. It looks like it's >> going to be a long slog. >> >> > That sounds kinda off-beam in the sense that these tools are core GNU stuff > and any changes you make should be in the GNU tree. > > The reason we need a project is to try to update what IBM started but have since abandoned
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/bpxa1toy.html Unfortunately, it's not uncommon get negative reactions when you try to submit EBCDIC patches to ASCII systems http://bugs.python.org/issue1298. > I've had lotsa experience with frustrating GNU ports to IBM. There does > exist > a lot of help out on the Web for, e.g., AIX (arrrrgghh) ports of gcc > etc. And does > Neal Ferguson no longer dabble in this kind of support? > > You may need a project less than you need a consultant or support from > Red Hat (into which the greatest of the GNU commercial support > organizations, > Cygnus Solutions, was folded years ago) > I doubt that Red Hat have access to a z/OS system. And even if they did there are lot's of issues in the z/OS unix system that take some getting used to. For example, signals and pthreads have different interfaces. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
