jhamby / gnv-bash

Jake Hamby's updates to the GNU bash port to OpenVMS. Work in progress. Minimum target is VSI VMS V8.4-2L1 with C99 RTL.

This is a mirror of the Mercurial repository on Sourceforge for a package that is a component of the GNV project for OpenVMS.

Its purpose is to provide a record of the source used for the GNV packaged version of the product.

The original unmodified source is located in the reference/ directory and all OpenVMS-specific changes that have not been checked into the parent repository are located in the vms_source/ directory.

An OpenVMS concealed logical name of src_root: is for the reference directory and an OpenVMS concealed logical name of vms_root: is set to the vms_source directory.

These are kept separate to make it easy to determine what OpenVMS-specific changes where made and to allow retargeting the src_root: to a different version to easily support maintaining multiple versions such as release, beta, and trunk at the same time.

The user can then create a logical name of lcl_root: for the directory that will contain the build products. The lcl_root: directory tree is the only directory tree that the build procedure should be modifying.

A logical name search list of prj_root: is set to lcl_root:,vms_root:,src_root: for building the package.

Git was chosen for managing jhamby's fork of this source code repository as there is now a git client that can execute directly on OpenVMS. This repository contains branch names of the form vm.n where m and n are respectively the major and minor version numbers of the releases contained in the branch. The releases within each branch are tagged with names of the form vm.n.u(b) where m and n have the same interpretation as for branch names and u and b are the update number and build number respectively of the release associated with the tag name.