Re: lynx-dev lynx dev22 on VMS

[dickey]

>  Recently Philip Webb : address@hidden wrote about a problem 
> >none of the Lynx volunteers had anything to say about this problem, 
> >despite the lengthy account offered.  VMS is not that well supported. 

PW doesn't support VMS.  I do (with lots of help from the people who report
problems building there).
  
>  
>       A bit of a worry so I thought I might give the latest dev22 a compile, 
> there was not long to wait.... 
>  
> $ cc := cc/decc/prefix=all /nomember - 
>         /warning=(disable=implicitfunc)- 
>         /DEFINE=(ACCESS_AUTH,UCX)- 
>         /INCLUDE=([-.Implementation],[---.src],[---.src.chrtrans],[---]) 
> $! 
> $ cc [-.Implementation]HTParse.c 
> $ cc [-.Implementation]HTAccess.c 
> $ cc [-.Implementation]HTTP.c 
> $ cc [-.Implementation]HTFile.c 
>  
> PRIVATE int print_local_dir ARGS5( 
> ............................^ 
> %CC-E-NOTEXPECTING, Error parsing parameter list.  
> Found "*" when expecting one of: ",", ")". 
> at line number 1475 in file [LYNX2-8-2.WWW.LIBRARY.IMPLEMENTATION]HTFILE.C;1 
>  
> >From htfile.lis..... 
>         33208  
>         33209 PRIVATE int print_local_dir ARGS5( 
>               ............................1       
> %CC-E-NOTEXPECTING, (1) Error parsing parameter list.  
> Found "*" when expecting one of: ",", ")". 
>  
>         33210         DIR  *,                 dp, 

I don't see it right off, but suspect that DIR is not declared on VMS.  Will 
check.
But it looks like you can ifdef out that function under HAVE_READDIR.

>         33211         char *,                 localname, 
>         33212         HTParentAnchor *,       anchor, 
>         33213         HTFormat,               format_out, 
>         33214         HTStream *,             sink) 
>         33215 { 
>         33216     HTStructured *target;       /* HTML object */ 
>         33217     HTStructuredClass targetClass; 
>         33218     STRUCT_DIRENT * dirbuf; 
>         33219     char *logical = NULL; 
>               ....1                      
> %CC-E-BADSTMT, (1) Invalid statement. 
> ..... 
>     after this it got seriously confused... 
>  
> (Alpha VMS 7.1, UCX 4.2, DECC 5.6, lynx2-8-2 13 Apr) 
>  
>                               Regards 
>  *      *     *     *     *       Tony Bolton    
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