James K. Lowden wrote: > This afternoon I built vbisam from the tarball maintained on > SourceForge. The build platform is macOS, but for reasons unclear it > compiled with gcc. Perhaps something to do with libtool. > > Just to the first part, gcc is aliased to clang on Mac. You have to look closely though, it's a hidden *convenience* feature. On working on VBISAM. I'm pretty sure you want Ron's updates, or, I run the copy out of OSCONS in Japan, part of the OpenCOBOL 1.5J release. The copy on SourceForge is behind a few patches, as far as I'm led to believe. Cheers, Blue