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Re: Support of OpenVMS
- From: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 12:27:20 +0100
- Subject: Re: Support of OpenVMS
- References: <98DBB2B9-EF03-4900-8F27-0B899FF1A6DA@adacore.com> <47A19F12.8040706@redhat.com>
On Jan 31, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Nick Clifton wrote:
The important point from a GNU point of view is that it should be
possible to build the binutils with as little reliance on
proprietary tools as can be achieved. Since it sounds like both
methods have VMS dependencies, I would say go with the simpler
method - ie the VMS specific build scripts.
Thanks for the GNU pov.
Doug Rupp (the author of most of this work) told me that in any case
configure is necessary for cross-building.
Very strong point!