Re: m4 patch requests

[Mike Fulton]

Hi

 

One clarification I forgot to mention – these changes are to get m4 to build on z/OS. I have it running based on the m4-1.4.19 tarball and am working on doing a full build using git://git.savannah.gnu.org/m4.git (I have a few issues with libtools on z/OS that I am still fixing up for that).

 

Thanks, Mike 

 

 

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Date: Friday, December 23, 2022 at 19:56
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] m4 patch requests

Hello, I am new to the m4 community and would like to understand the best way to propose a patch. I have a few small changes I would like to request – one minor one where there is a macro collision on z/OS where __stat is already defined, and

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Hello,

 

I am new to the m4 community and would like to understand the best way to propose a patch. 

I have a few small changes I would like to request – one minor one where there is a macro collision on z/OS where __stat is already defined, and two others where I would like to add some z/OS specific code for conversion to ASCII from EBCDIC.

I have a third where the error message from our runtime is ‘<message number> No such file or directory’ instead of just ‘No such file or directory’.

 

What is the preferred way to propose these changes for the community?

 

Thanks, Mike 

 

 

Thanks, Mike