[Info-vax] CLI editing, was: Re: VMS - Virtual Terminals - A security risk way back yonder OR was that an Old Wives Tale ?

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On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 08:10:40 -0500
Stephen Hoffman via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

> On 2016-02-16 07:55:54 +0000, lists at openmailbox.org said:
> 
> > On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 13:11:17 -0800 (PST)
> > John Reagan via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> For building LLVM on OpenVMS, I told LLVM's configure script that I
> >> was building with icc.  If I asked for 'gcc', it made lots of
> >> assumptions that the entire toolchain was GCC derived.  I did have to
> >> do a few manual
> >> edits on the resulting config.status mostly around the confusion
> >> around C99 headers and some cc options that it assumed that everybody 
> >> implements.
> > 
> > Is icc available on VMS or was that just a trick to get LLVM to behave 
> > differently?
> 
> While icc does not exist for OpenVMS, specifying icc as the build 
> target for the configure causes the configure scripts to not haul in a 
> pile of gcc dependencies.

Ok, that's what I understood from his post but I wanted to double check.
Thank you.