On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:27 AM, pgmer6809 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, been following parrot for awhile, since OSCON 2005 in fact. > Finally might have some cycles to contribute; maybe docs, maybe tests. > > Getting feet wet, got parrot via svn. did Configure and make and make > test. > running parrot shows that it was built for i386. > > FYI I am running Ubuntu 7.1 (Gutsy) 32bit version on an Athlone64 > chip. > Here is the output of the tests if you are interested. > > ll tests successful, 10 tests and 667 subtests skipped. > Files=391, Tests=11720, 186 wallclock secs (118.41 cusr + 25.00 csys = > 143.41 CPU) > > g...@shadow:~/parrot$ gcc --version > gcc (GCC) 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2) > > g...@shadow:~/parrot$ ./parrot --version > This is Parrot version 0.9.0-devel built for i386-linux. > > > A scan of the myconfig file shows that all of the 'arch' symbols are > in fact defined as 386. > Is there a way I can build parrot for i686 architecture? > my uname -m shows i686, and I have libc6-i686 installed. >
i386 is kind of a misnomer. It's a generic build for an Intel-based chip on Linux. x86 might be more appropriate, but I believe this is a carryover from Perl 5. Steve Peters [email protected] _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
