Re: VMS progname and exit handling - Take 4

[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 with out
> > breaking backward VMS compatibility.
> >
> > But having a set of functions to easily swap commas for spaces and the
> > reverse would probably still be useful to add, as it would be more
> > convenient than the hack I had to use.
>
> As far as I understand you are testing GNV, you are not testing VMS.

Currently I am testing VMS behavior.  Once the remaining VMS test issues 
are resolved, then I will start adding the GNV code, and start running 
tests in both modes.

> No
> suprise that there are problems with the special variables, which have
> comma delimiters ($+, $^, $?). I think I already said this, from my
> point of view, a GNV GNU make should be separated from a VMS GNU make.

I only want one GNU make binary on my system that I can use anywhere I 
need to use GNU Make and have it just work.

> Here, in commands.c, you want to have the FILE_LIST_SEPARATOR defined as
> ' ' and not as ',' as it is in the #if VMS: you need to turn off the VMS
> macro or add an own GNV macro.

Or make it a runtime behavior based on the presence of getenv("SHELL") 
which GNU make is already checking for the other operating systems and 
adjusting its behavior.

Regards,
-John