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Re: binutils-2.21.51 and OpenVMS IA64


On Mar 29, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Philippe Vouters wrote:
> Dear Tristan,
> 
> I did not test your binutils 2.21.51 code and my changes under
> VMS/Alpha. However, I made several changes (see patch file built on
> Linux) so it cleanly builds under OpenVMS IA64 V8.3-1H1 using the HP C
> 7.2-022 compiler. Now there is no more compile/link time
> error/warning/informational tool messages.

Yes, that what I understood from the patch.  I never tried to get rid of all informational
messages however as this is too VMS specific.

> Anyhow, many thanks to the VMS/binutils developers to have already
> written the code for VMS.
> 
> In fact, my goal is to port to IA64 an old Alpha article of mine
> available at
> http://vouters.dyndns.org/tima/OpenVMS-Alpha-automatically-creating-shareables-libraries.html
> For this purpose, I was looking for nm on VMS that I will DCL pipe
> with a to be developed small gawk program to automatically write the
> Linker's option file when it comes up to building shareable images.
> This process is mostly welcomed when porting Opensource codes to
> OpenVMS and the process includes loadable libraries.

Interesting...

Tristan.

> 
> Yours sincerely,
> Philippe
> 
> Le 29/03/2011 09:28, Tristan Gingold a écrit :
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 28, 2011, at 5:35 PM, Philippe Vouters wrote:
>>> Read
>>> 
> http://vouters.dyndns.org/tima/OpenVMS-binutils-2.21.51-Unix_utilities-nm-strings-size-addr2line-objdump-as_on_OpenVMS.html
>>> OpenVMS users may download a zip build on OpenVMS containing a saveset
>>> backup.
>>> Tested nm against nm.OBJ and DECC$SHARE:DECC$SHR.EXE on OpenVMS IA64
>>> V8.3-1H1
>>> binutils maintainers may download a patch built on Linux Fedora 14.
>> 
>> Thank you for using and testing binutils on vms.
>> 
>> I am not sure I can integrate your patch unless you have an FSF assignment.
>> 
>> Before every release, I check if the binutils still build on vms (I
> check both alpha an itanium). So if you download
>> the binutils 2.21 release, you should be able to build it on vms.
>> However I don't usually build the development version on vms, so there
> might be adjustments to do.
>> 
>> In any case, feel free to report any issues or improvement ideas.
>> 
>> Tristan.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> - -- 
> Philippe Vouters (Fontainebleau/France)
> URL: http://vouters.dyndns.org/
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