Thanks for the extensive work Craig, Charles, and Martin.
Thus far the only tests I have done have been with linking the precompiled
object files. With the patch kit I had no difficulty, at least judging
from my ability to do:
$ sho sym patch
PATCH == "$DRA3:[GNUPATCH]GPATCH"
$ patch --version
patch 2.5.4 for OpenVMS Alpha built on 29-DEC-2000
Copyright 1984-1988 Larry Wall
Copyright 1989-1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute copies of this program
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
written by Larry Wall and Paul Eggert
However one of the alpha object files for the diffutils kit appear to be
broken since when I run @link I see:
$ @link
$ Link/Executable=GDIFF.EXE/Notrace DIFF.ALPHA_OBJ, DIFFLIB.ALPHA_OLB/Library
%LINK-W-RECTYP, file DRA3:[GNUDIFFUTILS]DIFF.ALPHA_OBJ;1 record 1 is illegal (64.)
%LINK-W-RECTYP, file DRA3:[GNUDIFFUTILS]DIFF.ALPHA_OBJ;1 record 2 is illegal (55296.)
%LINK-W-RECTYP, file DRA3:[GNUDIFFUTILS]DIFF.ALPHA_OBJ;1 record 3 is illegal (21028.)
[snip]
%LINK-W-RECTYP, file DRA3:[GNUDIFFUTILS]DIFF.ALPHA_OBJ;1 record 124 is illegal (25697.)
%LINK-W-RECTYP, file DRA3:[GNUDIFFUTILS]DIFF.ALPHA_OBJ;1 record 125 is illegal (756.)
%LINK-W-NOEOM, no end-of-module record found
in module file DRA3:[GNUDIFFUTILS]DIFF.ALPHA_OBJ;1
%LINK-W-SEQNCE, illegal record sequence
in module file DRA3:[GNUDIFFUTILS]DIFF.ALPHA_OBJ;1
%LINK-F-NOMODS, no input modules specified (or found)
And it appear unable to produce .EXE files:
$ dir [...]*.exe
%DIRECT-W-NOFILES, no files found
I guess I'll give compiling the diffutils a whirl and let you know later
how things went.
Peter Prymmer
