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Sorting out compiles

I've spent the last day and a half sorting out the compiles for this environment. Obviously, with the port to IA64, the command procedures that are being used to compile and link the in-house application have been modified to compile and link on both Alpha and IA64. Unfortunately, one bit appears to have been missed (rather an important bit, too).

The application uses a canned procedure to generate standardized COBOL subroutines that perform all the file I/O. The procedure consists of an executable image that spawns library commands and compile commands. Noone had addressed this running on the new architecture, and the IA64 version of the object library was woefully out of date. Compounding this was the fact that the compile and link procedure was only doing an "ON ERROR" instead of an "ON WARNING", and everyone thought everything was fine.

Not so.