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diff --git a/README_d/README.VMS b/README_d/README.VMS index 057a359f..40442b14 100644 --- a/README_d/README.VMS +++ b/README_d/README.VMS @@ -8,21 +8,20 @@ utility. From the source directory, use either or |$ MMS/DECRIPTION=[.VMS]DECSRIP.MMS GAWK -VAX C V3.x -- use either vmsbuild.com or descrip.mms as is. These use - CC/OPTIMIZE=NOLINE, which is essential for version 3.0. -VAX C V2.x -- (version 2.3 or 2.4; older ones won't work); edit either - vmsbuild.com or descrip.mms according to the comments in them. - For vmsbuild.com, this just entails removing two '!' delimiters. - Also edit config.h (which is a copy of file [.config]vms-conf.h) - and comment out or delete the two lines ``#define __STDC__ 0'' - and ``#define VAXC_BUILTINS'' near the end. -GNU C -- edit vmsbuild.com or descrip.mms; the changes are different - from those for VAX C V2.x, but equally straightforward. No - changes to config.h should be needed. -DEC C -- edit vmsbuild.com or descrip.mms according to their comments. - - Tested under VAX/VMS V5.5-2 using VAX C V3.2, GNU C 1.42 and 2.5.0. -Should work without modifications for VMS V4.6 and up. +DEC C -- use either vmsbuild.com or descrip.mms as is. +VAX C -- use `@vmsbuild VAXC' or `MMS/MACRO=("VAXC")'. On a system + with both VAX C and DEC C installed where DEC C is the default, + use `MMS/MACRO=("VAXC","CC=CC/VAXC")' for the MMS variant; for + the vmsbuild.com variant, any need for `/VAXC' will be detected + automatically. +GNU C -- use `@vmsbuild GNUC' or `MMS/MACRO=("GNUC")'. On a system + where the GCC command is not already defined, use either + `@vmsbuild GNUC DO_GNUC_SETUP' or + `MMS/MACRO=("GNUC","DO_GNUC_SETUP")'. + + Tested under Alpha/VMS V6.2 using DEC C V5.2 and under VAX/VMS V6.2 +using DEC C V5.2, VAX C 3.2, and GNU C 2.7.1. GAWK should work without +modifications for VMS V4.6 and up. Installing GAWK on VMS: @@ -85,24 +84,20 @@ multi-translation RMS searchlist. Building and using GAWK under VMS POSIX: Ignore the instructions above, although vms/gawk.hlp should still -be made available in a help library. Make sure that the two scripts, -'configure' and 'mungeconf', are executable; use `chmod +x' on them if -necessary. Then execute the following two commands: - |psx> configure vms-posix - |psx> make PARSER=yacc awktab.c gawk -The first command will construct files "config.h" and "Makefile" out of -templates. The second command will compile and link 'gawk'. Due to -a 'make' bug in VMS POSIX 1.0 and V1.1, the file "awktab.c" must be -given as an explicit target or it will not be built and the final link -step will fail. Ignore the warning "Could not find lib m in lib list"; -it is harmless, caused by the Makefile's explicit use of -lm as a linker -option which is not needed under VMS POSIX. Under V1.1 (but not V1.0) -a problem with the yacc skeleton /etc/yyparse.c will cause a compiler -warning for awktab.c, followed by a linker warning about compilation -warnings in the resulting object module. These warnings can be ignored. - - Another 'make' bug interferes with exercising various components -of the test suite, but all the actual tests should execute correctly. -(The main exception being book/wordfreq, which gives different results -due to VMS POSIX 'sort' rather than to 'gawk'.) +be made available in a help library. The source tree should be unpacked +into a container file subsystem rather than into the ordinary VMS file +system. Make sure that the two scripts, 'configure' and 'vms/posix-cc.sh', +are executable; use `chmod +x' on them if necessary. Then execute the +following two commands: + |psx> CC=vms/posix-cc.sh configure + |psx> make CC=c89 gawk +The first command will construct files "config.h" and "Makefile" out +of templates, using a script to make the C compiler fit 'configure's +expectations. The second command will compile and link 'gawk' using +the C compiler directly; ignore any warnings from `make' about being +unable to redefine "CC". The configure script will take a very long +time to execute, but at least it provides incremental feedback as it +runs. + + Tested with VAX/VMS V6.2 + VMS POSIX V2.0 + DEC C V5.2. |