[Info-vax] Color me confused (VMS C issues, this time with %zu)

[John Reagan]

On Friday, October 28, 2016 at 6:08:08 PM UTC-4, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 10/28/16 4:22 PM, John Reagan wrote:
> > On Friday, October 28, 2016 at 2:46:19 PM UTC-4, David Froble wrote:
> >> Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> >>> In article <nuu1p2$ah9$1 at dont-email.me>, "Craig A. Berry"
> >>> <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> Most of the people maintaining open source software on VMS are using
> >>>> hobbyist licenses to do so.
> >>>
> >>> Right.
> >>>
> >>>> Which means unless and until VSI is able to
> >>>> take over the hobbyist program, the people most likely to be interested
> >>>> in the changes John is talking about are least likely to be able to get
> >>>> access to them.
> >>>
> >>> Right.
> >>>
> >>> Note also that with the current hobbyist programme, patch access is
> >>> limited.  It would be nice if VSI changes this or gives people like
> >>> Richard, Steven, and other contributors to the VMS community a
> >>> non-hobbyist license in return for their huge contributions to getting
> >>> open-source stuff to work on VMS over the years.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Note that the people at VSI are VMS enthusiasts.  Unlike HP, they actually care.
> >>   While it's not up to me, I have great confidence that they (VSI) will attempt
> >> to "do the right thing".
> >>
> >> But also realize they are busier than the proverbial one armed paper hanger, so,
> >> do have some patience.  If it's critical, ask, they may be able to expedite some
> >> things.
> >
> 
> > I have heard some discussions about the Hobbyist program in the
> > hallway, but I don't know any details.
> >
> > We all wear many hats.  I think I have about 5 "top priority" tasks
> > (out of a list with about a dozen or more).  I can barely find time
> > to come to comp.os.vms to post snarky responses.
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to do those :-). Someone snipped the part
> where I said I understand that the hobbyist program is number 999 of the
> top one thousand priorities at VSI.
> 
> But if you want to give your CRTL changes a workout, try building Perl:
> 
> <http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.24.0.tar.gz>
> 
> Afer untarring:
> 
> $ @configure -"Dusedevel" -"Dusevmsdebug" -"des"
> $ mmk
> $ mmk test
> 
> That will run over 2,000 test scripts, many of which exercise the CRTL
> considerably.

I'll get Brett to do some building/testing, but I'll do Perl.  Any particular MMK version?