Tony Summers wrote:
> Dear Posters, 
> 
> Is anyone aware of an easy way of making the HP3000 cobol compiler
> search a series of MPE groups in order to find a copylib module.
> 
> At present our programs use....
> 
>     COPY CFDB01. 
>     COPY CFTONY OF COPYUTS.  
> 
> And our compile scripts issue some file equates before compiling the
> program  ....
> 
> FILE COPYLIB=COPYNEW4.LIB
> FILE COPYUTS=COPYUTS4.LIB
> COB85XL SCPROG,,,etc 
> 
> The above is standard MPE resolution of copylibrary modules via COPYLIB
> KSAM files (and has been discussed many times before on this list). 
> 
> However,  what we would like to be able to do is issue some more generic
> "PATH" variable....
> 
> E.g. 
> 
> SETVAR COPYPATH="TONY.DEVELOP,LIB.DEVELOP,LIB.SYS" 

When we took over the HPMMII product at eXegeSys, Inc,
it came with a development package made by HP called PDE
(Parallel development environment).
All it really is, is a set of command scripts,
a defined mpe GROUP and ACCOUNT structure,
and use of HPSRC (source control).

What you describe as desiring to do is just what it did.
We would have group names for each release version:
	PMA0307
	PMA0307N
	PMA0307O
	PMA0307P
	PMA0308
The complete sources at a major release would be kept in
that release's group: PMA0307.
When you worked on a version, you would check out the sources
in your logon group: PMA0307N.
This groups would only contain the sources for what was changed
from the major release.

The compile scripts, would have a PATH variable set to include
all the groups, in reverse order.
Then for each file the was needed to compile (sources were
scanned for $INCLUDEs), its existence was checked following
down this PATH variable, and a file equation was created.
When that was done, the compile would follow.

Keven Miller

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