* More fixes to VMS by Hartmut Becker.

diff --git a/config.h-vms.template b/config.h-vms.template
index e2dd026..67b9447 100644 (file)
--- a/config.h-vms.template
+++ b/config.h-vms.template
@@ -330,14 +330,23 @@
 /* #undef WANT_CASE_SENSITIVE_TARGETS */
 
 /* VMS specific, V7.0 has opendir() and friends, so it's undefined */
-/* Define first or both if you want to use non-VMS code for opendir() etc. */
+/* If you want to use non-VMS code for opendir() etc. on V7.0 and greater
+   define the first or both macros AND change the compile command to get the
+   non-VMS versions linked: (prefix=(all,except=(opendir,...  */
 /* #undef HAVE_VMSDIR_H */
 /* #undef _DIRENT_HAVE_D_NAMLEN */
 
-/* On older systems with older CRTLs force non-VMS-code */
-#if __CRTL_VER < 70000000 && !defined(HAVE_VMSDIR_H)
-#define HAVE_VMSDIR_H 1
+/* On older systems without 7.0 backport of CRTL the first one is defined */
+#ifdef __CRTL_VER
+# if __CRTL_VER < 70000000
+#  define HAVE_VMSDIR_H 1
+# endif
+#else
+# if __VMS_VER < 70000000
+#  define HAVE_VMSDIR_H 1
+# endif
 #endif
+
 #if defined(HAVE_VMSDIR_H) && defined(HAVE_DIRENT_H)
 #undef HAVE_DIRENT_H
 #endif

diff --git a/readme.vms b/readme.vms
index dacc394..d4a9667 100644 (file)
--- a/readme.vms
+++ b/readme.vms
@@ -11,6 +11,21 @@ seem worth to get it working. There are still some PTRMISMATCH warnings
 during the compile. Although perl is working on VMS the test scripts
 don't work. The function $shell is still missing.
 
+There is a known bug in some of the VMS CRTLs. It is in the shipped
+versions of VMS V7.2 and V7.2-1 and in the currently (October 1999)
+available ECOs for VMS V7.1 and newer versions. It is fixed in versions
+shipped with newer VMS versions and all ECO kits after October 1999. It
+only shows up during the daylight saving time period (DST): stat()
+returns a modification time 1 hour ahead. This results in GNU make
+warning messages. For a just created source you will see:
+
+ $ gmake x.exe
+ gmake.exe;1: *** Warning: File `x.c' has modification time in the future (940582863 > 940579269)
+ cc    /obj=x.obj x.c
+ link  x.obj    /exe=x.exe
+ gmake.exe;1: *** Warning:  Clock skew detected.  Your build may be incomplete.
+
+
 New in 3.78.1:
 
 Fix a problem with automatically remaking makefiles. GNU make uses an

diff --git a/vmsfunctions.c b/vmsfunctions.c
index a36630e..69ba28c 100644 (file)
--- a/vmsfunctions.c
+++ b/vmsfunctions.c
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 #include <fibdef.h>
 #include "vmsdir.h"
 
-#if __VMS_VER < 70000000
+#ifdef HAVE_VMSDIR_H
 
 DIR *
 opendir (dspec)