GNV and make for x86-64

[mjimji]

Can anyone tell me if there is a make utility for x86 yet? I use GNV make on Itanium and Alpha and would like to be able to use the same make files.

If it's not available yet would building it myself be an option? Where would I go for the source?

Thanks,

Mark

[sms]

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> If it's not available yet would building it myself be an option?
> Where would I go for the source?

   I haven't touched GNV in a long time, so I know nothing, but I'd
expect any GNU adaptation to be _required_ to make the source code
available.

   My quick Web search led to:

      https://vmssoftware.com/products/gnv/

(Presumably, the broken link there,
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/openvms_notes_gnv.html , should
now point to http://neilrieck.net/docs/openvms_notes_gnv.html .)

   Also: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnv/
         https://sourceforge.net/p/gnv/wiki/Home/

[tim.stegner]

You should be able to get the make sources for (GNV's version 3.78.1 or) version 4.1 from Savannah and the latter version is known to compile on x86.

[mjimji]

Thanks sms and tim.stegner.

I tried compiling version 4.4 and found quite a few issues, but eventually managed to produce an executable. Due to time constraints though, I haven't been able to test it

When I can get back to it I will probably use version 4.1 instead.

[mjimji]

I built and am now using version 4.1, downloaded from Savannah. I think the only change I made was to define HAVE_SA_RESTART on the cc command in makefile.com.