jhamby / gnv-coreutils

Jake Hamby's updates to the GNU coreutils port to OpenVMS. I'm currently updating the build scripts to work with the latest upstream code. This port will require OpenVMS V8.4-2L1 with the C99 CRTL patch.

This is a repository for a package that is a component of the GNV project for VMS.

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 VMS specific changes that have not been checked into the parent repository are located in the vms_source directory.

A VMS concealed logical name of src_root: is for the reference directory and a VMS concealed logical name of vms_root: is set to the vms_source directory.

These are kept separate to make it easy to determine what VMS 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 logcal name search list of prj_root: is set to lcl_root:,vms_root:,src_root: for building the package.

Git was chosen for the repository as it now has a VSI-supported native client.