Re: VMS progname and exit handling - Take 4

2014-04-03 Thread John E. Malmberg
On 4/1/2014 4:22 PM, h.becker wrote: On 04/01/2014 06:41 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote: If you have the make variable be a MCR command, it has a space which can have side effects when if the resulting string is processed by other strings or macros. You mentioned this already. Can you point me to

Re: VMS progname and exit handling - Take 4

2014-04-03 Thread h.becker
On 04/02/2014 07:15 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote: On 4/1/2014 4:22 PM, h.becker wrote: On 04/01/2014 06:41 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote: If you have the make variable be a MCR command, it has a space which can have side effects when if the resulting string is processed by other strings or macros.

Re: VMS progname and exit handling - Take 4

2014-04-03 Thread John E. Malmberg
On 4/3/2014 4:15 PM, h.becker wrote: On 04/02/2014 07:15 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote: snip With 20/20 hindsight, a new set of macros should have been created that returned the data with comma delimiters that could have been used with VMS specific rules and recipes. That can not be done now

Re: VMS progname and exit handling - Take 4

2014-04-01 Thread h.becker
On 04/01/2014 06:41 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote: If you have the make variable be a MCR command, it has a space which can have side effects when if the resulting string is processed by other strings or macros. You mentioned this already. Can you point me to an example where this fails? Is this

Re: VMS progname and exit handling - Take 4

2014-03-31 Thread h.becker
On 03/31/2014 06:46 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote: This has the makefile changes needed to build from master and on VAX/VMS. In addition, vms_progname.c that is compatible as a VMS specific replacement for the progname.c that is used for several GNU projects. This variant of vms_progname.c

Re: VMS progname and exit handling - Take 4

2014-03-31 Thread John E. Malmberg
On 3/31/2014 12:48 PM, h.becker wrote: On 03/31/2014 06:46 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote: This has the makefile changes needed to build from master and on VAX/VMS. In addition, vms_progname.c that is compatible as a VMS specific replacement for the progname.c that is used for several GNU

VMS progname and exit handling - Take 4

2014-03-30 Thread John E. Malmberg
special VMS status bits. Regards, -John 0001-VMS-progname-and-exit-handling-take-4.patch.gz Description: application/gzip ___ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make