Re: [Bug-wget] [PATCH 10/14] Do not depend on always defined macros

[Darshit Shah]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Steven M. Schweda <address@hidden> wrote:
> From: Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden>
>
>> ops, thanks to have catched it.  I've fixed it in my local copy, this is
>> how it looks now:
>>
>> diff --git a/vms/vms.h b/vms/vms.h
>> index d65aeda..6053df1 100644
>> --- a/vms/vms.h
>> +++ b/vms/vms.h
>> @@ -49,16 +49,6 @@ int utime( const char *path, const struct utimbuf *times);
>
>    There was also that comment near the beginning:
>
>> ALP $ gdiff wget-1_14/vms/vms.h_orig wget-1_14/vms/vms.h
>> 10,12d9
>> <  *  Emergency substitution of stat() for lstat() for VAX and VMS CRTL
>> <  *  before V7.3-1.
>> <  *
>
>    It might make sense to fetch one of my 1.15 source kits, and see what
> else has changed since 1.12.  (Probably many things.)
>
>    I don't know how much sense it makes to include VMS-specific files in
> the official sources.  Without a VMS system, you really can't
> maintain/test them, and I usually don't do anything until a real release
> occurs, so it's hard for you to do a release with good VMS stuff in it.
> And, recent "tar" kits have not included any VMS-specific files, anyway.
>
I'm not sure about the release tarballs, but if we're not shipping the
VMS files in the tarballs, then maybe the git sources shouldn't carry
them either.

Anyways, as Steven states we are unable to test/maintain any of the
VMS specific code, then keeping build documentation doesn't help
either.
>    SMS.
>



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Thanking You,
Darshit Shah