Re: gnu utilities for MVS and CMS

[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
> much hassle for me to provide a pre-compiled binary for a target I can't
> even test on, when it is much simpler for me to just provide only the
> official source tarballs.  Fortunately, the GPL guarantees you the freedom
> to continue making and publishing your ports on your site.

Ok, I didn't mean for you to provide a pre-compiled binary.
Actually at those links I provided, I don't provide one either.
The pre-compiled binary is only included as part of the
MVS/380 and VM/380 distributions.

However - I just wanted to make a note - MVS/380, VM/380
and Hercules/380 will allow you to test the product on either
Windows or Linux (and some other options too I think),
should you wish to do that.

Actually it's quite cool seeing whether your code works on
an EBCDIC and pure C89 environment or not.  :-)

> > https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=195127&package_id=266159
>
> 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?  If you can't compile newer m4 on your environment
> out of the box, but can make quick modifications to change that situation,
> then those would be good candidates for upstream inclusion.

Ok, will try that out later.

BFN.  Paul.