[Aldor-l] Portability

[pip88nl at gmail.com]

Hi,

during the Aldor Workshop, I talked with Bill Page about portability.
There are operating system abstraction layers for various systems
including VMS and DOS. Should these still be supported? Which of the
others should still be supported? I recently gained access to an OpenVMS
cluster, but I didn't find a way to build aldor on it, yet. There is no
GNU make on there, only MMS and MMK. Also, as far as I can see, the
garbage collector does not work on VMS.

A major issue on VMS is that there can be no configure script. There is
no bourne shell on that. The aldor build system as provided by aldor.org
also heavily relies on the bourne shell existing on the system (or nmake
for windows). Can anyone tell me how to build aldor on VMS? I want to see
whether it runs at all..

By the way, on FreeBSD, aldor still segfaults and I can't really work on
it. Building aldor in the VM running FreeBSD takes over an hour.

Pippijn
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