Re: [bug #41813] Mult-line override define failing on VMS.

[John E. Malmberg]

On 3/18/2014 11:30 AM, h.becker wrote:
> On 03/17/2014 11:34 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> > On 3/16/2014 4:13 PM, h.becker wrote:
> > > Appended is a temporary fix for the multiline problem.
> >
> > The fix appears to work.
> >
> > I think your comment about it breaking the echo being defined as
> > sys$output is wrong though.  I tested it with no echo symbol and with
> > echo as a symbol and it generates the expected output now in both cases.
>
> It seems you aren't using plain VMS, which has no echo command nor echo
> symbol. I'm talking about the make variable ECHO as defined for VMS in:

The test works as long as echo is a foreign command because no macro 
substition is done.

Because of a bug in my copy of the test harness, I was not seeing the 
errors about undefined symbols.

> The broken ECHO is one reason I flagged the fix "temporary". It seems,
> there should be a builtin_echo for VMS.  Shouldn't be too hard, but I
> haven't looked at it. That way some old VMS makefile which make use of
> ECHO will continue to work. The question is, whether one would want to
> support DCL symbols within the to be echoed text.

Another question is how much of the Unix environment should be simulated 
when running Gnu make from DCL?

Regards,
-John