[Info-vax] Looking into C-include files on VMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> In article <hc87pf$rm1$00$1 at news.t-online.com>,
> Michael Kraemer  <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> wrote:
>> Joerg Schilling schrieb:
>>
>>> There are several problems:
>>>
>>> -	The filesystem only supports one dot "." in filenames which would
>>> 	require modifications in "configure"
>> configure is a PITA even on Unix.
>> Dump it and revert to makefiles (or Imake).
>>
>>> I am currntly trying to compile "smake" 
>> what's wrong with using stock "make"?
> 
> There is no make on VMS

There used to 4-5 different ones.

>                          and gnu make is not make and the POSIX make
> definition is not completel enough to allow to use it for portable
> applications.
> 
> imake is dead and just another program to create "self mofifying code"
> 
> The Schily Makefilesystem I started to implement in 1992 is something that is
> really portable in case you use a portable make program.

Thousands of other people use standard tools make, ant etc. for that.

Arne