Re: [bug #41760] VMS outputting extra blank lines.

[John E. Malmberg]

On 3/3/2014 1:08 PM, h.becker wrote:
> On 03/03/2014 05:55 AM, John Malmberg wrote:
> > URL:
> >    <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?41760>
> >
> >                   Summary: VMS outputting extra blank lines.
> >                   Project: make
> >              Submitted by: wb8tyw
> >              Submitted on: Mon 03 Mar 2014 04:54:59 AM GMT
> >                  Severity: 3 - Normal
> >                Item Group: Bug
> >                    Status: None
> >                   Privacy: Public
> >               Assigned to: None
> >               Open/Closed: Open
> >           Discussion Lock: Any
> >         Component Version: 4.0
> >          Operating System: VMS
> >             Fixed Release: None
> >             Triage Status: None
> >
> >      _______________________________________________________
> >
> > Details:
> >
> > VMS is outputting extra blank lines in the output.
> >
> > For example a recipe line "@continue" results in a blank line in the output.
> >
> > I am patching my local copy of the test harness to not consider this a test
> > failure until I can fix this.
>
> A simple makefile with
> all:
>         @continue
> doesn't exhibit this, can you give an example?

It shows up in the recorded output for the test harness for 
features/conditionals test 3, after the makefile has been modified to 
use VMS syntax on when the test is run on VMS via DCL.

It does not show up when running the test interactively.

When I redirect sys$output to a file, I end up with two files instead of 
the one that is expected.

So there are a couple of odd things going on here.

I am not seeing the blank lines on other tests.  I have not converted 
all the tests to use VMS syntax for the recipe lines though.

Regards
-John