Re: VAX/VMS 7.3 and build from copy of master.

[h.becker]

On 02/26/2014 08:07 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> I have removed it, because we need to move on.

Yes. I think beautifying the build environment wasn't really the goal.

> It is an issue on search lists, in some cases if the sys$disk:[] is
> missing, the file may not get found due to the stickyness of DCL file
> handling.  I may be putting in a few more places than absolutely needed
> just as a defensive measure.

There weren't sys$disk:[]s in all the places. In prepare_vms.com I
prefixed the parsed template file with one. It looked strange to search
with that prefix but then to have a result without. That broke the pipe
command, which I changed again to fit the 255 maximum of a DCL command
token (for versions prior to V8.2 of VMS).

In makefile.com, having objdir := sys$disk:[] but no such prefix in the
source file list and in the cc command seems to be inconsistent. I'm
still curious to see a problem without this prefix in the make build
environment.

> I think it is sloppy to have error messages for expected conditions.

Unfortunately VMS has no equivalent of "rm -f", delete/nolog isn't it.
But one can redirect the output of make.

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