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binutils-2.21.51 and OpenVMS IA64

Philippe Vouters philippe.vouters@laposte.net
Tue Mar 29 09:05:00 GMT 2011 
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Dear Tristan,

I did not test your binutils 2.21.51 code and my changes under
VMS/Alpha. However, I made several changes (see patch file built on
Linux) so it cleanly builds under OpenVMS IA64 V8.3-1H1 using the HP C
7.2-022 compiler. Now there is no more compile/link time
error/warning/informational tool messages.

Anyhow, many thanks to the VMS/binutils developers to have already
written the code for VMS.

In fact, my goal is to port to IA64 an old Alpha article of mine
available at
http://vouters.dyndns.org/tima/OpenVMS-Alpha-automatically-creating-shareables-libraries.html
For this purpose, I was looking for nm on VMS that I will DCL pipe
with a to be developed small gawk program to automatically write the
Linker's option file when it comes up to building shareable images.
This process is mostly welcomed when porting Opensource codes to
OpenVMS and the process includes loadable libraries.

Yours sincerely,
Philippe

Le 29/03/2011 09:28, Tristan Gingold a écrit :
>
>
> On Mar 28, 2011, at 5:35 PM, Philippe Vouters wrote:
>> Read
>>
http://vouters.dyndns.org/tima/OpenVMS-binutils-2.21.51-Unix_utilities-nm-strings-size-addr2line-objdump-as_on_OpenVMS.html
>> OpenVMS users may download a zip build on OpenVMS containing a saveset
>> backup.
>> Tested nm against nm.OBJ and DECC$SHARE:DECC$SHR.EXE on OpenVMS IA64
>> V8.3-1H1
>> binutils maintainers may download a patch built on Linux Fedora 14.
>
> Thank you for using and testing binutils on vms.
>
> I am not sure I can integrate your patch unless you have an FSF assignment.
>
> Before every release, I check if the binutils still build on vms (I
check both alpha an itanium). So if you download
> the binutils 2.21 release, you should be able to build it on vms.
> However I don't usually build the development version on vms, so there
might be adjustments to do.
>
> In any case, feel free to report any issues or improvement ideas.
>
> Tristan.
>
>
>

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Philippe Vouters (Fontainebleau/France)
URL: http://vouters.dyndns.org/
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