[Info-vax] Some questions on software for VMS 7.3 VAX

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On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 15:42:20 -0500
Stephen Hoffman via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

> 
> On Monday, January 25, 2016 at 10:50:05 AM UTC-5, li... at openmailbox.org
> wrote:
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> > Unfortunately it looks like this code has some serious problems. Are 
> > you running it on VAX?
> 
> It's far more likely that the OpenVMS VAX and C tools have limitations 
> and omissions here.   The emacs code is very likely in good shape.  
> Emacs is used all over the place, after all.

That doesn't mean the code is in good shape, virtually no gnu code is. It
just happens to be bashed into submission but only on certain platforms
(Linux). Everywhere else you quickly realize what kind of shape it is
actually in. For example, the build breaks with non-gcc compilers and
non-bash shells. I know, because I have built most of the recent releases
on Solaris.

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