At 10:04 AM -0400 6/21/02, Brian Tillman wrote:
> >Can you e-mail me a copy of your numeric.c off-list and I'll check your
>patch application skills :-).
>
>I can and will,
OK, here's the significant difference between your version and a
version with Hugo's patch applied. You came really close, but close
doesn't count and this could easily explain the problems you were
seeing:
$ gdiff -"ubB1" numeric.c numeric.c_brian
--- numeric.c Thu Jun 20 16:26:03 2002
+++ numeric.c_brian Fri Jun 21 09:35:08 2002
@@ -728,3 +728,2 @@
if (exponent == 0)
- return value;
>but if I could get a make for VMS, I'd use that instead of
>doing it by hand. I have to admit, Hugo's patch was a little difficult for
>me to add by hand.
What you want is not make, which is the equivalent of MMS or MMK, but
GNU patch. See the section entitled "GNU PATCH and DIFFUTILS for
VMS" in README.vms in your Perl distribution.
>BTW, I tried compiling Gnu Make V3.79, but it won't build. Module
>variable.c contains an error (undeclared variable "listp").
I think there's a working VMS port in the package at
<http://gnv.sourceforge.net>, but again that's not what you need.
>I wish you'd use something more VMS-ish, like DIFFERENCES/SLP, as God
>intended. <wink>
God did not have to work in a team with others reviewing his changes.
The rest of use patch and diff :-).
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