Support of OpenVMS

Tristan Gingold gingold@adacore.com
Mon Feb 4 11:22:00 GMT 2008


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!




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