Re: m4 patch requests

Mike Fulton <[email protected]> Sat, 24 Dec 2022 04:29:11 +0000
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Hi

One clarification I forgot to mention =96 these changes are to get m4 to bu=
ild on z/OS. I have it running based on the m4-1.4.19 tarball and am workin=
g on doing a full build using git://git.savannah.gnu.org/m4.git (I have a f=
ew issues with libtools on z/OS that I am still fixing up for that).

Thanks, Mike


From: [email protected] <m4-discuss-bounces+f=
[email protected]> on behalf of Mike Fulton <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, December 23, 2022 at 19:56
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] m4 patch requests
Hello, I am new to the m4 community and would like to understand the best w=
ay to propose a patch. I have a few small changes I would like to request =
=96 one minor one where there is a macro collision on z/OS where __stat is =
already defined, and
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Hello,

I am new to the m4 community and would like to understand the best way to p=
ropose a patch.
I have a few small changes I would like to request =96 one minor one where =
there is a macro collision on z/OS where __stat is already defined, and two=
 others where I would like to add some z/OS specific code for conversion to=
 ASCII from EBCDIC.
I have a third where the error message from our runtime is =91<message numb=
er> No such file or directory=92 instead of just =91No such file or directo=
ry=92.

What is the preferred way to propose these changes for the community?

Thanks, Mike


Thanks, Mike


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es I would like to request =96 one minor
 one where there is a macro collision on z/OS where __stat is already defin=
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<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"font-family:&quot;IBM Plex Sans&quot;=
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 =96 one minor one where there is a macro collision on z/OS where __stat is=
 already defined, and two others where I would like
 to add some z/OS specific code for conversion to ASCII from EBCDIC.</span>=
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"font-family:&quot;IBM Plex Sans&quot;=
,sans-serif;color:black">I have a third where the error message from our ru=
ntime is =91&lt;message number&gt; No such file or directory=92 instead of =
just =91No such file or directory=92.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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