VMS progname and exit handling - Take 4

2014-03-30 Thread John E. Malmberg
This has the makefile changes needed to build from master and on VAX/VMS. In addition, vms_progname.c that is compatible as a VMS specific replacement for the progname.c that is used for several GNU projects. This variant of vms_progname.c has an additional feature that it temporarily creates

Skipped tests on VMS.

2014-03-30 Thread John E. Malmberg
These entire tests are currently skipped on VMS, so very simple patch. Regards, -John 0001-Skipped-tests-on-VMS.patch.gz Description: application/gzip ___ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make

Proposed VMS readme fixes.

2014-03-30 Thread John E. Malmberg
The existing readme.vms is getting too hard to follow. I propose splitting off the historical data into the changelog.vms and only have information that is relevant to running the current version of GNU make in the readme.vms. Added documentation for the issues discovered by running the test

Test harness patch for VMS.

2014-03-30 Thread John E. Malmberg
This is the first cut at the patches for running the test harness on VMS. The test_make.com sets up the environment and runs the test. As it makes persistent changes to the logged in session, I recommend dedicating a logged in session to running tests. The "-help" option to test_make.com expla