27-Nov-2005

Building CVS (continued)
Tried it with GNV.
First to do is configure. It gives some errors:

bash$ configure
%DCL-W-PARMDEL, invalid parameter delimiter - check use of special characters \.SH\
%DCL-W-IVVERB, unrecognized command verb - check validity and spelling \HOSTINFO\
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /gnu/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
%DCL-W-IVVERB, unrecognized command verb - check validity and spelling \CYGPATH\
checking for prefix by checking for cvs... no
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... no
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc...
cp: cannot create regular file `conftest.dir/depcomp': no such file or directory./configure: ./depcomp: no such file or directory
noneup
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for AIX... no
checking for ANSI C header files...

and there it ends - no activity left anymore. ^T gives:

DIANA::WILLEM 22:36:51 BASH CPU=00:00:02.42 PF=3448 IO=8279 MEM=289
DIANA::WILLEM_56 22:36:51 SH CPU=00:00:06.58 PF=514 IO=76086 MEM=327
DIANA::WILLEM_80 22:36:51 GCC CPU=00:00:00.15 PF=279 IO=2008 MEM=160

and after some time:

DIANA::WILLEM 22:36:58 BASH CPU=00:00:02.42 PF=3448 IO=8280 MEM=289
DIANA::WILLEM_56 22:36:58 SH CPU=00:00:06.58 PF=515 IO=76087 MEM=328
DIANA::WILLEM_80 22:36:58 GCC CPU=00:00:00.16 PF=280 IO=2009 MEM=161

Why is that? Started another session and watched the system:

OpenVMS V7.3-2 on node DIANA 27-NOV-2005 22:38:02.69 Uptime 12 23:36:26
Pid Process Name State Pri I/O CPU Page flts Pages
21400A0A WILLEM HIB 5 8281 0 00:00:02.42 3448 289
21400A45 WILLEM_56 HIB 5 76088 0 00:00:06.58 515 328 S
21400761 WILLEM_80 RWMBX 6 2010 0 00:00:00.17 280 161 S
$

Willem_80 waiting, that is "GCC" or: CC with some options.

Might be a version problem? Current is 1.5-5, and the latest (as on the HP site) seems 1.6. Downloaded that, but no time for installation.

But perhaps waste of time
Got a comment on the issue of Seti on Nov 22nd: - I'm not the only one that is very displeased with Berkeley's way of doning "Open source development". Others are already busy with the port. I'll wait for that (but will still do the CVS code because I may need that for other " Open" products.