[Info-vax] LLVM on x86-64 VMS, was: Re: First non-VSI x86 application port?

[John Reagan]

On Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 8:25:26 AM UTC-5, John Reagan wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 4:28:07 PM UTC-5, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: 
> > On Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 9:57:37 AM UTC+13, xyzz... at gmail.com wrote: 
> > 
> > > We're working on CMake. 
> > Will your patches be going back upstream? 
> > 
> > Because the last thing you want to do is maintain your own proprietary fork.
> The CMake code already comes with ifdef's for __VMS. For OpenVMS, it uses 
> vfork()/execvp(). Most of our "work" on CMake is shaking out our header changes 
> and such. I should say "started porting CMake to help shaking out other issues". 
> We're currently working on the personality routines in libcxxabi because of it.

In fairness, that vfork() change might have been make inside VSI.  I'm now checking in it.