[mdb-dev] build mdb-export on OpenVMS

[<Fra...@lp...>]

Hi all,

when I was looking for tools then can read data from mdb-files at not-windows-plattform I
found this project. I tried to build the exe-files on my OpenVMS-System. Bash-Shell is
installed, ZLIB and GLIB. But in generell OpenVMS has only poor unix-like tools.

First I tried the "stable" version 0.5:
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bash$ configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
sed: couldn't open file %s: %s
/dka100/software/mdbtools/mdbtools-0-5/missing: Unknown `--run' option
Try `/dka100/software/mdbtools/mdbtools-0-5/missing --help' for more information
configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... no
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking build system type...
                              config.sub: too many arguments
Try `config.sub --help' for more information.
configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub
  exit (1);
..^
%CC-I-IMPLICITFUNC, In this statement, the identifier "exit" is implicitly decla
red as a function.
at line number 110 in file DKA100:[SOFTWARE.mdbtools.mdbtools-0-5]dummy-3335.c;1
 failed
bash$


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Next I tried version 0.6pre1:
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AXP06$ bash ./configure
rm: cannot remove `conftest/sub': directory not empty
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
sed: couldn't open file %s: %s
/dka100/000000/software/mdbtools/mdbtools-0-6pre1/missing: Unknown `--run' optio
n
Try `/dka100/000000/software/mdbtools/mdbtools-0-6pre1/missing --help' for more
information
configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
rm: cannot remove `conftest': is a directory
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
                                      rm: cannot remove `conftest': is a directo
ry
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... no
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc...
                                    mkdir: cannot create directory `conftest.dir
': file exists
mkdir: cannot create directory `sub': file exists
nonecannot remove `conftest.dir/sub': directory not empty
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking build system type...
                              config.sub: too many arguments
Try `config.sub --help' for more information.
configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub
  exit (1);
..^
%CC-I-IMPLICITFUNC, In this statement, the identifier "exit" is implicitly decla
red as a function.
at line number 110 in file SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR.VMS_TEMP.cgLuE4La]dummy.c;2 faile
d
AXP06$

The last version I found is 0.7 rc1
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This kit does not have a configure-file. 'autoconf' is needed. In order to install
autoconf perl is needed to install first. (May be other also.) But I only like to build an
exe-file from c-code.

Why such overhead? This works only on the newest Linux-versions. For poor unix-systems
(POSIX-conform) a munually build should be more easy.
Example:
% gcc mdb-export
% link mdb-export

Do I have a chance to build mdb-export without make and without configure and without
autoconf, simply with gcc and link (and perhaps some qualifiers)?


regards, Frank