VMS port

2013-11-25 Thread Pavel Fedin
Hello! I am restarting work on spawn-patch for Cygwin. Actually, i have the very first version working, but want to try to do some face-lift and get rid of some #ifdef's. My first question is: is VMS port maintained, or dead long ago ? Kind regards, Pavel Fedin Expert Engineer Samsung

Re: VMS port

2013-11-25 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 13:48 +0400, Pavel Fedin wrote: I am restarting work on spawn-patch for Cygwin. Actually, i have the very first version working, but want to try to do some face-lift and get rid of some #ifdef's. My first question is: is VMS port maintained, or dead long ago ? The VMS

RE: VMS port

2013-11-25 Thread Pavel Fedin
Hello! The VMS port is actively and capably maintained by Hartmut Becker. The ChangeLog shows he provided VMS fixes for 4.0 as recently as September. Ah, i see. Thanks for pointing at. It's easier if patches are targeted for specific results, so it's best not to include major

Re: VMS port

2013-11-25 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Pavel Fedin p.fe...@samsung.com Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:44:20 +0400 Cc: bug-make@gnu.org Actually, i want to fix output-sync for spawn()-based flavor. This includes EMX, DOS and potentially Cygwin. Currently output-sync option will not work in that ports, because the related

Re: VMS port

2013-11-25 Thread hb
of 'child_execute_job' gets the complete 'child' structure, i have checked it but it seems to ignore these new members. So i've got one more question - may be this fragment should become completely generic ? Just with some note that VMS code should also implement handling for it. The VMS port does

Error in VMS port of GNU make

2001-04-24 Thread Michael Espe
In file variable.c, the procedure lookup_variable has an error in the following code: sptr = value; scnt = 0; if (listp) *listp = current_variable_set_list; while ((sptr = strchr (sptr, '$'))) { The variable listp is not defined,

Re: Error in VMS port of GNU make

2001-04-24 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Michael Espe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: me In file variable.c, the procedure lookup_variable has an error in the me following code: me if (listp) me *listp = current_variable_set_list; me The variable listp is not defined, nor is it really used, so it me