[FreeVMS] Build system questions

[Guido]

On 03/16/2015 10:23 PM, Roar Thronæs wrote:
> My patched grub has ODS-2 support, as you know. 

Of course, do not mind my earlier comment on grub.

> Both variants come from an earlier (Free)VMS project

Obviously. On VMS the date/time is represented by a QUADWORD, probably 
best to use something like that here too.

> System headers for both the executive/kernel and user software? VMS 
> itself had things structured that way, between librtl(?)/starlet 
> (sys$starlet_c.tlb) and lib (sys$lib_c.tlb). (Had to google to find 
> those tlbs.) 

I did not mean librtl and starlet, those are user level C libraries. 
What is currently in the sys and lib subdirs could be sys$lib_c indeed. 
According to HoffmanLabs sys$lib_c contains system-specific (private) 
definitions that are undocumented and subject to change. One should not 
need it for user land applications, that is what librtl and starlet are 
for. sys$lib_c can be used for device driver development. What is called 
libc on linux/unix resides somewhere in decc$... (or vaxc$... on really 
old systems?).

Regards,
Guido