Re: gnu utilities for MVS and CMS

2009-01-31 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Edwards on 1/31/2009 8:23 AM: [your port of the m4 package may be easier to discuss on the m4 lists] > Not a bug. An enhancement. I now have ports of these products to MVS > and CMS (mainframe operating systems). It would be nice

Re: gnu utilities for MVS and CMS

2009-01-31 Thread Paul Edwards
[your port of the m4 package may be easier to discuss on the m4 lists] Ok. Thanks for the porting efforts. Unfortunately, while it is nice to see your efforts and your links, I can state that at least for m4, it is not worth uploading your binaries to the official FSF sites. It is just too m

Re: gnu utilities for MVS and CMS

2009-01-31 Thread Paul Edwards
This is an old version with known security flaws. Can you try porting the newer m4 1.4.12 release instead, which should still be compilable with just a C89 compiler? Ok, I've just tried. There are both C99 and non-C99 extensions, and while I see there are replacement header files for some of t

Re: gnu utilities for MVS and CMS

2009-01-31 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Edwards on 1/31/2009 9:34 PM: >> This is an old version with known security flaws. Can you try porting >> the >> newer m4 1.4.12 release instead, which should still be compilable with >> just a C89 compiler? > > Ok, I've just tried.