make 3.77 and 3.79.1 on Compaq (ex- Tandem) Himalaya OSS POSIX emulation

[Arrigo Triulzi]

Hi,

I would like to report that I have been able to successfully build a
copy of GNU make 3.77 on the Compaq (ex- Tandem) Himalaya system
running OSS, the POSIX emulation layer.

The machine name I used is nsr-tandem-nsk (nsk=Non Stop Kernel) and I
had to edit config.cache to disable a number of functions which were
found but are not actually available on the system.

The Himalaya OSS layer has a "feature" whereby functions which you
linked against but which are not really available are only noticed
when you run the code and you are dumped into INSPECT (the debugger).

I would very much like to contribute back the changes I have made to
make it compile but I need a little assistance and guidance as to the
correct format.

On a separate note I have been completely unable to compile make
3.79.1 or anything more recent than 3.77.  NLS seems to be one issue
but there appear to be others.

Please do get in touch if you are at all interested,

Thanks,

Arrigo

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