Re: VMS can not include "float+.h"

[John E. Malmberg]

On 6/15/2017 2:26 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 06/15/2017 07:05 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> > It should only be include files VMS has issues with.
>
> If that's the problem, then it shouldn't be much trouble to have a 
> separate script that rewrites the file names and source code to follow 
> the POSIX portable filename rules. We could include that script as a 
> separate file in Gnulib, or perhaps as a gnulib-tool option. This would 
> avoid the need to change existing code, and I assume Bruno would be OK 
> with something along those lines.

I already have a VMS specific edit script that can update the 7 modules 
in gnulib that include float++ that I can run as part of a prebuild script.

At the time I made that reply, my only Internet access was a small cell 
phone screen, so it was both hard to type or read other pages.

For this pass, I am mainly trying to get everything to compile with a 
minimum amount of VMS specific changes and support files.

> That being said, wouldn't it be simpler for you to switch your VMS 
> development host's file system to ODS-5? That way, you should be able to 
> use these file names as-is, and you'll be less likely to run into 
> similar problems with programs other than Gnulib.

The development host system is ODS-5 on Alpha/IA64.

The not handling of #include "float++" is a bug in the compiler that was 
recently discovered when I updated the GNV Coreutils package.

The compiler also sometimes has problems with #include "../xxxx.h", 
which need similar edits to work around.

Regards,
-John