I use z/OS make! Out of lack of experience, I guess, but it seems to do its job OK. We ran into some issues when one developer was accidentally using gnu make. It produced a bunch of mysterious errors, and took us a while to figure out. So, makefiles don't seem to be compatible between them (generalizing from my one example).
I usually edit in ISPF. For the tabs, I use something rare, like ~ or @@, then before saving, do a change all to x'05'. And the inverse when editing, if needed. Much of the time, you can edit around the tabs just fine. But I really dislike invisible characters, and it seems like a silly way to do things. sas On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 1:17 AM, Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:40:14 +0800, David Crayford wrote: > >>Swing by Rockets ported talks and download and install gmake. Nobody >>uses the z/OS make including IBM developers. >> > It would have been a boon if Unix System services had been ASCII-based rather > than > EBCDIC, and relied on GNU tools. > >>On 14/12/2017 9:58 AM, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >>> I wrote my first "makefile" today. Took me some time to understand the >>> requirement for tab characters. Having only the ISPF editor (oedit), tab >>> characters are not very friendly on 3270 screens. >>> > There ought to be an RFE here. Tab could be handled cleverly on a 3270 > screen. > > But ISPF is perhaps not the best editor for makefiles or many other UNIXy > tools. > > EBCDIC tab is x'05'. > >>> GNUMake has an special variable called ".RECIPEPREFIX" that allows >>> replacement of the tab character with another character. This does not >>> appear to be an option on z/OS. Does z/OS by chance have anything similar, >>> perhaps with a different name? > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- sas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
