RE: m4 patch requests

2022-12-23 Thread Mike Fulton
Hi Thank you Sam! Will do. Thanks, Mike On 2022-12-23, 20:43, "Sam James" wrote: > On 24 Dec 2022, at 03:56, Mike Fulton > mailto:fult...@ca.ibm.com>> wrote: > > Hello, Hi Mike, > I am new to the m4 community and would like to understand the best way to > propose a patch. > I have a few

RE: m4 patch requests

2022-12-23 Thread Mike Fulton
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: m4 patch requests On 12/23/22 9: 29 PM, Mike Fulton wrote: One clarification I forgot to mention – these changes are to get m4 to build on z/OS. m4 must already build on z/OS .. . there's all that Gnu stuff there .. . it couldn't configure without m4.

Re: m4 patch requests

2022-12-23 Thread Sam James
> On 24 Dec 2022, at 03:56, Mike Fulton wrote: > > Hello, Hi Mike, > 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

Re: m4 patch requests

2022-12-23 Thread Sam James
> On 24 Dec 2022, at 04:39, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > > On 12/23/22 9:29 PM, Mike Fulton wrote: >> One clarification I forgot to mention – these changes are to get m4 to build >> on z/OS. > m4 must already build on z/OS ... there's all that Gnu stuff there ... it > couldn't configure without m4.

Re: m4 patch requests

2022-12-23 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 12/23/22 9:29 PM, Mike Fulton wrote: One clarification I forgot to mention – these changes are to get m4 to build on z/OS. m4 must already build on z/OS ... there's all that Gnu stuff there ... it couldn't configure without m4. -- Jack J. Woehr # Do not meddle in the affairs of wiza

Re: m4 patch requests

2022-12-23 Thread 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).