[XForms] can't find file

[Angus Leeming]

On Thursday 03 June 2004 4:28 pm, Gayle C Roth wrote:
> To subscribers of the xforms list
> Hi.
>
> I ran into another stumbling block in my effort to build the xforms
> library on an OpenVMS system (surprise, surprise :) ).  The build
> procedure was doing fine until it tried to compile
> [.xforms.lib]listdir.c.  Then, I got the error message "Cannot find
> file vms_readdir.c" which, indeed, is not to be found.  This leads
> me to ask the following questions:

Gayle, it occurred to me last night that you're trying to compile the 
xforms-1.0.90.tar.gz prelease, right?

If that is the case, all this noise about the gnu autotools has been, 
well, just noise. These tools do no more than 

* generate the configure script in the top level directory from 
configure.ac
* generate files Makefile.in in each directory from the corresponding 
Makefile.am

both sets of files should exist already in the prerelease.

That being the case, then you should be able to build XForms in 
identical manner to me:

mkdir build
cd build
../configure --enable-demos
make

The configure step will generate lib/config.h in the build tree 
together with Makefiles from the corresponding Makefile.in files.

Of course, you'll still need to shove the missing vms_readdir.c and 
dirent_vms.h files in the lib directory of the src tree.

Let me know. Regards,
Angus