Re: IBM z/OS compatibility issues

[Daniel Richard G.]

Apologies for the delay; holiday travel kept me occupied!

On Sat, 2019 Dec 14 08:51-05:00, Bruno Haible wrote:
>
> > This sounds good. It would imply broadening the scope of the script
> > beyond just working around the -c -o limitation, but then it was
> > always a curiosity that that has been the *only* issue this script
> > was intended to work around (until now).
>
> In fact, the other issue this script works around are the invocation
> conventions of the MSVC compiler (slash options instead of dash
> options).

I had previously glanced over lib/compile in the Automake Git repository
to refresh my memory. Someone needs to update the description at the top
of the file :]

> > Also: I see that AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS() actually comes from
> > Autoconf. Would that be a good place to put e.g. the
> > -D_UNIX95_THREADS flag needed to get a proper pthreads API? I see
> > that as similar in spirit to -D__EXTENSIONS__.
>
> Yes, I agree.

Ah, good. I'll forward this to them once I've caught up with my
correspondence.

> > I can add some information, but am concerned about discoverability.
> > I myself was not aware of this wiki until you mentioned it to me
>
> This wiki is very recent (just a month old). The more useful content
> we add, the more known it will become. Gnulib did not become widely
> known within a month either :-)

Understood; I'll update that when I have the opportunity.


--Daniel


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