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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:32:39 -0700
From: Martin Sebor <sebor@roguewave.com>
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Luckily, GNU make and a bunch of other handy tools are available for
z/OS. Here's a helpful article:
http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg245992.html?OpenDocument

GNU make itself as well as a bunch of other useful stuff that will
make your experience on z/OS more tolerable (i.e., UNIX-like) can
be downloaded from here:
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/bpxa1ty1.html#opensrc

Martin

Martin Sebor wrote:
> Liviu Nicoara wrote:
> 
>> What Martin means by configuring the library is the first leg of
>> "make"-ing the library, where the GNU makefiles direct the execution of
>>  the config tests and the creation the config.h header. You could see
>> for yourself how this goes by building the library on a UNIX w/o RCB
>> (i.e. using GNU makefiles).
>>
>> I am pretty sure I know from Tim or John that the reason why we're using
>> a hardcoded config header is that zOS is missing a shell and the
>> required utilities.
> 
> 
> If that's the case we need to put together an infrastructure that
> will let us do it automatically. It's almost impossible to do it
> right by hand.
> 
> Martin