Re: Fix for lib/same-inode.h for VMS

[Paul Eggert]

John E. Malmberg wrote:

> I do not know if the pragma for the assert would be valid for anything other 
> than __DECC compiler

Ah, I see. Still, I'm leery of pragmas, as I have the sneaking suspicion that 
they can hurt even when inside an #else that is skipped, due to problems in 
parsing them on non-VMS platforms. So if we can do without the pragma I'd prefer 
that.
> The autoconfig/automake tools do not work yet on VMS.

That's OK, they don't need to. You can run them on GNU/Linux, and then run the 
resulting 'configure' script on VMS, once you get the shell working.

> We do not use Configure scripts for building Bash, Coreutils, gawk, sed, and the 
> make fork, as we need to build at least these first to get the configure scripts 
> to run.

Once you get them running they should be self-supporting. In the meantime you 
can just use -D_USE_STD_STAT systematically in your compiler switches. The 
Gnulib source code generally does not worry about development platforms that 
don't have a working shell, as that's too far away from the intended porting target.