From: John E. Malmberg [wb8tyw@qsl.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 9:04 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: SAMBA and VMS

"Craig A. Berry" <calepine@my-deja.company> wrote
in message news:8uv4t1$1ou$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> In article <kt6mmAr$At9f@eisner.decus.org>,
>   wb8tyw@qsl.network (John E. Malmberg) wrote:
>
> > I do not know if the binaries at the site will link on OpenVMS 6.2.
> >
> > I do not know if the source will compile on OpenVMS 6.2 if the
> > link does not work.
>
> John,
>
> I haven't had a chance to try SAMBA but I've browsed the
> FRONTPORT code looking for things we might want to borrow
> for Perl.  The code is neat, clean, well-commented, and
> generally impressive.

Thank you!

The goal in it's implementation is to allow the building of UNIX programs
with out modifying the source at all.  SAMBA is a good torture test of a C
RTL.

> At first blush, though, it does look
> like there will be a couple of problems building and linking
> on pre-7.x systems.  I've recently become painfully aware
> that rmdir() and truncate() tend not to be available in older
> C RTLs, i.e., those that shipped before OpenVMS 7.0.  I did
> notice that you use these routines though I haven't built the
> library on an older system.  People on 6.x who have installed
> a recent C compiler or otherwise upgraded the C RTL might be
> ok, but I don't know exactly when these routines became
> available.

Yes, according to

http://www.openvms.compaq.com/commercial/c/5763p064.htm#depend_v70

The rmdir() and truncate() functions are not available prior to OpenVMS 7.0.

They are implemented in the backport library DECC$CRTL.OLB that ships with
the DEC C compiler, otherwise alternatives can be coded.

The FRONTPORT.MMS build script has a parameter option that will cause it to
link against the backport library inside of it.  I am not sure that I put it
in the LINK_FRONTPORT.COM routine.

The rmdir() can be synthisized with a delete call.  The truncate() routine
would need a bit more coding, probably using RMS routines.

If someone else does not code up these routines, I will keep this in mind
for a potential future version.

Regards,
-John
wb8tyw@qsl.network