At 01:10 PM 11/6/2001 -0500, Andy Dougherty wrote:
>On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> > Getting parrot building on Solaris brought up another interesting
> > portability issue. Turns out the default GCC switches are inappropriate
> for
> > GCC 2.8.1, which is the default on my Sun box. Works OK with gcc
> > 2.95.somethingorother.
> >
> > How far back with GCC should we support?
>
>[a little bit of guessing here . . . ]
>
>I think your question is actually more generic and will be self-answering
>in time.
>
>Configure.pl still grabs most of its defaults from the previous perl5
>build. I'll bet you used a pre-built perl5 on your system. That pre-built
>perl5 was apparently not built with the same version of gcc that you have
>on your system.
D'oh! Got it in one--thanks Andy. The default GCC wasn't the one that built
my perl, hence the problem.
One more thing for the portability list, I guess. (Re-figure C switches,
right next to a relocatable perl...)
Dan
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