Re: [patch] tar.1.19 changes needed for VMS so far.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello John,

* John E. Malmberg wrote on Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:01:46AM CET:
> In tests/testsuite :
>
> VMS can not deal with having a file/directory named testname and  
> testname.dir in the same directory.
>
> This is because all directories are named .dir, and to be more POSIX  
> friendly, VMS hides the ".dir" part of the directory when using UNIX 
> syntax.
>
> So testname and testname.dir appear to be the same filename when  
> testname.dir is a directory.

Can you do something like a VPATH build on VMS?  Because then, then
testsuite script should live in the source tree, and the testsuite.dir
and testsuite.log will be in the build tree.  (At least in packages
other than Autoconf itself.)

> I can not automatically run the test suite because I do not have  
> Autotest, and even if I find a tarball for it, I am not sure that it  
> will run on VMS.

Autotest is part of recent Autoconf.  I remember there was a VMS port of
Autoconf but I do not know how current it is.

Cheers,
Ralf