Re: Dotfiles on VMS (patch)

Karsten Spang wrote:

> Hello Derek
>
> > Thanks for the patch.  I checked in a fix, using your advice, but I
> > abstracted a strcat_filename_onto_homedir function rather than 
> switching
> > at each location.  It passes the test suite on UNIX, but I don't have a
> > VMS machine to run tests on.  Please let me know if you have any
> > problems with my fix.
>
> I checked out the 1.11.2 sources, and merged in your changes, as I was
> not able to compile the development sources on VMS. To be exact, I did:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> rm -rf ccvs
> cvs -z9 -d :pserver:guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvs checkout -rcvs1-11-2 ccvs
> cd ccvs
> cd vms
> cvs update -j1.21 -j1.22 config.h
> cvs update -j1.12 -j1.13 filesubr.c
> cd ../src
> cvs update -j1.29 -j1.30 wrapper.c
> cvs update -j1.68 -j1.69 login.c
> cvs update -j1.37 -j1.38 ignore.c
> cvs update -j1.55 -j1.56 filesubr.c
> cvs update -j1.20 -j1.21 cvsrc.c
> cvs update -j1.229 -j1.230 cvs.h
> cd ..
> cvs diff -c
>
> on a Unix box, and moved the result to VMS.
>
> Your fix seems to work as intended. My only "complaint" is that your
> function is misnamed, the word "home" being unnecessary.
>
> I have a few more VMS "problems". We have just upgraded to latest VMS
> (7.3) and Compaq C compiler (6.5), and it seems that Compaq have
> provided a few more Unix compatibility functions, most notably
> getpagesize and utime. I had to make changes to the vms/build_vms.com
> file and vms/config.h to make CVS compile and link. I cannot really
> provide a patch for this, as removing these functions will break CVS
> on earlier version of VMS.
>
> Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
> Dan Net A/S
>
> Karsten Spang
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I suppose #ifndef utime and/or ifndef #getpagesize switches are too much 
to hope for?  Perhaps a short script that generates config.h based on 
the functions existance, a la autoconf?

Derek

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