Everhart, Glenn
From:	Marcin Kasperski [marckasp@friko6.onet.pl]
Sent:	Tuesday, November 24, 1998 6:50 AM
To:	Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject:	Re: Running UNIX makefile under OVMS 6.2
Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 
> Current GNU MAKE's (3.76, 3.76.1 and 3.77 if I remember correct) builds
> on
> VMS. OK - I have only tried it with VMS Alpha 7.1 and DEC C 5.6. But it
> should
> not be hopeless. I am pretty sure that it do build on VMS 6.2. VAX C is
> quite
> old, so I do not know about that. GNU C may be better.
> 

I succesfully build GNU Make 3.77 using DEC C V5.7-004 on OpenVMS Alpha
V7.1-1H2 
Although I have had some problems with it, I still use it and prefer it
to MMS.
Most important problems:
- make sometimes crashed until I hacked dir.c file by hard defining
	#define NAMLEN(dirent) strlen((dirent)->d_name)
  (on top of dir.c there is compliated conditional defining NAMLEN
macro, by default
   it is defined in some other way which after short debugging occured
to be incorrect)
- the file functions (like dirname, basename) doesn't interpret names in
Unix convention - which I still sometimes use
- the line continuation character \ can not be used for commands as make
gives it to DCL instead of merging lines by itself
I also faced a few times the problem with DCL line length limitation.
But that's problem of DCL, not make.

-- 
Marcin Kasperski
marckasp@friko6.onet.pl