Re: vms:test variables

2014-04-15 Thread h.becker
On 04/15/2014 03:06 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote: > The fix there is on VMS to replace "echo > $@" with: > 'open/write xxx $@ ; write xxx "" ; close xxx' Yes, that should do the trick as other possible fixes can do the same. > Perl choosing logical names as the default for implementing %ENV has >

Re: vms:test variables

2014-04-15 Thread John E. Malmberg
On 4/14/2014 3:04 PM, h.becker wrote: As already mentioned, the last test for variables/GNUMAKEFLAGS fails for VMS. I think I know why, but I'm not yet sure whether I have the full picture. There are at least two reasons: the "port" to VMS of the makefile for this test case is not working as exp

Re: vms:test variables

2014-04-14 Thread h.becker
As already mentioned, the last test for variables/GNUMAKEFLAGS fails for VMS. I think I know why, but I'm not yet sure whether I have the full picture. There are at least two reasons: the "port" to VMS of the makefile for this test case is not working as expected and exporting make variables is no

Re: vms:test variables

2014-04-12 Thread h.becker
On 04/12/2014 01:31 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote: > On 4/11/2014 5:18 PM, h.becker wrote: >> I hacked a fix for the automatic variables. To pass the test, the vms >> version of the test script needs a fix as well: >> >> --- ../origtests/automatic Fri Apr 11 18:11:32 2014 >> +++ tests/scripts/var

Re: vms:test variables

2014-04-11 Thread John E. Malmberg
On 4/11/2014 5:18 PM, h.becker wrote: I hacked a fix for the automatic variables. To pass the test, the vms version of the test script needs a fix as well: --- ../origtests/automatic Fri Apr 11 18:11:32 2014 +++ tests/scripts/variables/automatic Fri Apr 11 18:10:19 2014 @@ -73,9 +73,10 @@

Re: vms:test variables

2014-04-11 Thread h.becker
I hacked a fix for the automatic variables. To pass the test, the vms version of the test script needs a fix as well: --- ../origtests/automatic Fri Apr 11 18:11:32 2014 +++ tests/scripts/variables/automatic Fri Apr 11 18:10:19 2014 @@ -73,9 +73,10 @@ # Fix vms directory syntax $answe

Re: vms:test variables

2014-04-10 Thread h.becker
On 04/09/2014 03:01 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote: > The test is mainly testing for the older Perl 5.8.x from the HP kit to > avoid using it. Craig Berry did a manual custom install of 5.10 on > Encompasserve that looks a lot like the new PCSI kit install for 5.18, > so the test_make.com procedure di

Re: vms:test variables

2014-04-09 Thread John E. Malmberg
On 4/8/2014 12:48 PM, h.becker wrote: On 04/08/2014 07:28 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote: On 4/7/2014 4:37 PM, h.becker wrote: $ @TEST_MAKE features.dir/archives ... ^^ This is a day one bug in the older Perl on VMS versions that was fixed in about

Re: vms:test variables

2014-04-08 Thread h.becker
On 04/08/2014 07:28 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote: > On 4/7/2014 4:37 PM, h.becker wrote: >> $ @TEST_MAKE >> -- >> >>Running tests for GNU make on VMS >> GNU Make 4.0.90

Re: vms:test variables

2014-04-07 Thread John E. Malmberg
On 4/7/2014 4:37 PM, h.becker wrote: On 04/06/2014 07:34 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote: Ok, so now we have the a baseline test suite ported, what is it going to take to get this stuff committed so that we can start working on the bugs that have been exposed? I don't know who will/should answer su

Re: vms:test variables

2014-04-07 Thread h.becker
On 04/06/2014 07:34 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote: > Ok, so now we have the a baseline test suite ported, what is it going to > take to get this stuff committed so that we can start working on the > bugs that have been exposed? I don't know who will/should answer such a question. I still have no luck

Re: vms:test variables

2014-04-06 Thread John E. Malmberg
Ok, so now we have the a baseline test suite ported, what is it going to take to get this stuff committed so that we can start working on the bugs that have been exposed? ___ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listi

Re: vms:test variables

2014-04-06 Thread h.becker
On 04/06/2014 06:03 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote: > As above, I missed that DCL would not be handling the quoting the same. > I tried it with echo :== "write sys$output """ and echo :== > $gnv$gnu:[bin]gnv$echo.exe and was getting the same results. DCL isn't involved, here. For make for VMS, a DCL s

Re: vms:test variables

2014-04-05 Thread John E. Malmberg
On 4/4/2014 7:05 PM, h.becker wrote: On 04/04/2014 06:56 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote: variables: Late evening transcription error, I meant "automatic". After modifying that for VMS (especiall using write sys$output) I do not see any problem with any of the '<'s. (I see problems with $(^D), $(

Re: vms:test variables

2014-04-04 Thread h.becker
On 04/04/2014 06:56 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote: > variables: > Tests are failing because VMS is not handing pre-defined macros > "<" in the names. > Fixed up some expected output for VMS. At the moment I don't have full access to the net so I can't test this on a system with perl installed.

Re: vms:test variables

2014-04-04 Thread John E. Malmberg
On 4/4/2014 12:07 AM, Philip Guenther wrote: On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 9:56 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote: This is the patches for the variables tests on VMS. I'm kinda surprised that you haven't worked out some direct coordination with the GNU make developers for the handling of these diffs. I do

Re: vms:test variables

2014-04-03 Thread Philip Guenther
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 9:56 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote: > This is the patches for the variables tests on VMS. I'm kinda surprised that you haven't worked out some direct coordination with the GNU make developers for the handling of these diffs. I don't see how sending them to the full bug-make l

vms:test variables

2014-04-03 Thread John E. Malmberg
This is the patches for the variables tests on VMS. This is the last of the tests that I have patched so far. variables: Tests are failing because VMS is not handing pre-defined macros "<" in the names. Fixed up some expected output for VMS. GNUMAKEFLAGS: Test is failing because it is m