[Info-vax] GNV behavior and the DECC incantations

[BillPedersen]

I am currently trying to get a porting project off square one and have
been having issues with GNV.  With all the different incantation from
DECC feature logicals it gets a bit difficult to figure out the right
mix.

An issue I am having currently is it appears that for the command line
to function reasonably - things like  "man ln" not breaking - I need
to enable DECC$EFS_CASE_SPECIAL.

But, this does not provide any help for some issues with symbolic
links and correct operation of mkdir.  To get mkdir to function
reasonably - in this case create a unix style directory name of
aaa.dir which translated to aaa^.dir.DIR;1 I need DECC
$POSIX_COMPLIANT_PATHNAMES defined a "2" or at least that is what I am
using.

But DECC$POSIX_COMPLIANT_PATHNAMES disables DECC$EFS_CASE_SPECIAL.  It
also hides the "/dev/null/" special file, which then makes the
configure script I am trying to get to run successfully as a "start"
think that bash is "too old" since it can not find "/dev/null".

Any suggestions on the appropriate set of incantations?

This is on OpenVMS I64 V8.4 with V0400 update, TCPIP 5.7 ECO 2 and GNV
2.1.3.

Thanks,

Bill.