File	Date	Author	Commit
reference	2015-08-12	John Malmberg	[083fd5] Change reference to be a copy of GNU make maste...
vms_source	2015-08-12	John Malmberg	[021375] Updated tests for VMS.
README	2015-08-12	John Malmberg	[083fd5] Change reference to be a copy of GNU make maste...

Read Me

This is a repository for a package that will become a component of the GNV
project for VMS.

Its purpose is to provide collaboration between VMS developers that are
updating the GNU Make test and validate their changes before submitting them
to the GNU Make project.

The eventual goal is to get all the VMS changes needed for GNU Make to run
under DCL or GNV checked into the GNU make repository.

Once the GNU Make is up to date with all changes needed for GNV, this
repository is planned to be retired.

The original unmodified source is located in the reference/ directory and
all VMS specific changes that have not been checked into the parent
repository are located in the vms_source directory.

This unmodified source is a copy of the master branch that should be
periodically synced up with master.

A VMS concealed logical name of src_root: is for the reference directory and
a VMS concealed logical name of vms_root: is set ot the vms_source directory.

These are kept separate to make it easy to determine what VMS specific changes
where made and to allow retargeting the src_root: to a different version to
easily support maintaining multiple versions such as release, beta, and trunk
at the same time.

The user can then create a logical name of lcl_root: for the directory that
will contain the build products.  The lcl_root: directory tree is the only
directory tree that the build procedure should be modifying.

A logcal name search list of prj_root: is set to lcl_root:,vms_root:,src_root:
for building the package.

Mercurial was chosen for the repository as there are clients that can run on
VMS that is native to it.