Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!quintus!ok
From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Question Re: Configuration Management
Message-ID: <701@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 88 05:35:00 GMT
References: <5303@well.UUCP>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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In article <5303@well.UUCP>, pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) writes:
> This discussion is getting fairly tedious, but I guess it's worth one
> more posting, since after all, I'm Right.
> 
> Appended you will find a transcript showing the VAX/VMS linker doing
> exactly what I claimed it does.  I'm using K&P's Software Tools, and
					     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> $ fortran rtsgvx$dra0:[tmp]t174358.f-
    ^^^^^^^
> /obj=rtsgvx$dra0:[tmp]t174395.o/nolist
> rm lib/rndlb

Ah **HAH**!  

I have already posted a message showing how you *CAN* do this in UNIX.
If only he'd said he was talking about Fortran in the first place; several
of the replies explained why it is hard to do this >>for C<<.

Note that I am canny enough not to claim that the VMS C compiler (remember,
it isn't really a linker problem) can't do this too.  If Jef Poskanzer
would care to demonstrate that it can, I'll applaud.

> Moral of the story: just because you can't figure out how to do something
> doesn't mean other people can't.

The way I see it, the moral of the story is that if you don't tell
people what you're trying to do, it's not *their* fault if they assume
you are talking about something else.