ld for VMS?

[Tristan Gingold]

On Apr 25, 2010, at 9:24 PM, Jay K wrote:

> 
> Douglas, thank you, that seems to help.
> 
> Without set file attr:
> 
> WALLIS> link Wr.mo
> %LINK-W-RECTYP, file USER$DISK:[JAYKRELL.CM3-BOOT-ALPHA32_VMS-1]WR.MO;1 record 1 is illegal (90.)
> %LINK-W-RECTYP, file USER$DISK:[JAYKRELL.CM3-BOOT-ALPHA32_VMS-1]WR.MO;1 record 2 is illegal (2048.)
> 
> With set file attr:
> 
> WALLIS> link char.mo
> %LINK-W-NUDFSYMS, 3 undefined symbols:
> %LINK-I-UDFSYM,     Char_I3 
> %LINK-I-UDFSYM,     RTHooks_I3 
> %LINK-I-UDFSYM,     Word_I3 
> %LINK-W-USEUNDEF, undefined symbol Char_I3 referenced
>     in psect $DATA$ offset %X00000090
>     in module CHAR file USER$DISK:[JAYKRELL.CM3-BOOT-ALPHA32_VMS-1]CHAR.MO;1
> 
> That isn't supposed to have succeeded, it's just one .obj among a bunch.
> But at least the errors make more sense.
> 
> I know VMS file system is "different", but I don't know enough to know what to do about it. :)
> VMS users (you and the sysadmin) are very quick to suggest things that sounds very
> easy to them but I have no idea where the supply of these suggestions is. :)
> 
> Something is still off doing a cross link.
> Also I noticed some configure.com, makefile.vms strewn around, but they seem to be partly out of date.
> I also see Tristan rewrote some of the stuff recently, so not all out of date.

Indeed, I haven't yet updated bfd/makefile.vms after my recent changes.  I plan to do that.

Tristan.