Re: Porting patch to VMS

[Paul Eggert]

Boz <address@hidden> writes:

>       I've recently done some work on getting gnu patch (v2.5.4) to
> compile under VMS. The changes needed were relatively trivial, and
> shouldn't break compilation on any other architectures.

Please email them to bug-gnu-utils.  If they're trivial we won't need
copyright assignment forms.  Otherwise there will be some paperwork.

I prefer changes that do not affect the existing source code at all;
instead, put them into the VMS config.h, with auxiliary files in
a vms subdirectory.  See the existing pc subdirectory for ideas.

Also you should start with patch 2.5.9.  See
<http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/patch/patch_2.5.9.orig.tar.gz>.