OSLib under SourceForge

[Tony van der Hoff]

On 21 May 2002, in message <d8764e3a4b.philip at philipnet.com>,
Philip Ludlam <philip at philipnet.com> wrote:

> Dear All (and Tony),
> 
> By CVS I've got hold of the copy of OSLib available and I've just tried
> to make my own copy.
> Unfortunately it errors with:
> amu -desktop -f <OSLib$ToolsDir>.MakeFile tree
> AMU -f <OSLib$ToolsDir>.BindHelp.MakeFile -desktop tree
> AMU: failed to read time stamp for 'CLib:o.Stubs'
> AMU: failed to read time stamp for 'CLib:o.Stubs'
> AMU: *** exit (2) ***
> 
> AMU: *** 'tree' not re-made because of errors ***
> 
> Setting CLib$Path to be the same a C$Path seems to fix it. I'm just
> wondering if OSLib needs changing somewhere?
> 

Amusing... That has been like that ever since BindHelp and MakeHelp first saw
the light of day, which suggests that no-one has ever before tried to build
them from scratch :-)

CLib$Path here just contains a path to the Acorn C library, whereas C$Path
contains paths to everything (including OSLib and OSLibSupport), so the
former lets me control my libraries a bit better.

I see no real objection to changing the appropriate makefiles to call for
C:o.stubs, and I guess it is more standard.

> Another thing is that the default filetype for a file without a ,xxx
> suffix under LanMan98 is DOS. This means that !OSLib.!Readme, all the
> documents in !OSLib.docs and possibly others doesn't appear as text
> files even though they are.
> 
I don't understand that. I use LanMan98, and my files end up as text, both
from my local repository on the NT box, and from Sourceforge.

> If you can create a lists of all the files like this then you could
> submit a support request to the SourceForge staff to add the ,fff suffix
> to them all.
> 
> Just my 2p.

Thanks for your help, Phil.

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