[Info-vax] strtok_r on Compaq C V6.4-005 on OpenVMS VAX V7.3

[John Wallace]

On Oct 22, 1:31 am, Stephen Hoffman <seaoh... at hoffmanlabs.invalid>
wrote:
> On 2012-10-21 22:31:06 +0000, Single Stage to Orbit said:
>
> > All easily avoided by using macros to detect their presence or not.
> > This was why GNU autoconf was invented.
>
> Have you ever ported anything involving GNU autoconf to VMS?  (Most
> folks that have ported code to VMS that was involving autoconf probably
> won't make that statement.  Not without at least some caveats.)
>
> --
> Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC

I've tried GNU autoconf in its native territory but I still regard
autoconf as the spawn of the devil, even in its native territory.
Maybe building gdb was/is a particularly bad (ie complicated) example,
but for the simpler cases, autoconf struck me as complete overkill
anyway.