According to README,
You'll also need Perl 5.005 or above, compiled to support
the types you wish to support in Parrot. (Parrot will
make, but you'll be unable to assemble anything.) You can find
what types are support by typing 'perl -V', and examining the
values for ivtype and nvtype. Parrot should work with INTVALs
and NUMVALs up to those types.
However, trying to build with the Sun-supplied 5.005_03, I get the error
cd lib/Parrot && /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL && make && cd ..
Could not eval '
package ExtUtils::MakeMaker::_version;
no strict;
local $VERSION;
$VERSION=undef; do {
our $VERSION = '0.01';
}; $VERSION
' in PakFile2.pm: Can't modify subroutine entry in scalar assignment at
(eval 6) line 7, at EOF
*** Error code 2
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `lib/Parrot/.dummy'
because lib/Parrot/Makefile.PL contains
WriteMakefile(
'NAME' => 'Parrot::PakFile2',
'VERSION_FROM' => 'PakFile2.pm', # finds $VERSION
and PakFile2.pm says (among other things)
require 5.005_62;
use warnings;
our @ISA = qw(Exporter DynaLoader);
none of which will work with 5.005.
Is it perhaps time to require 5.6.x?
(Note too that perl -V:ivtype and perl -V:nvtype also won't work in 5.005 -- those too
were introduced in the
5.6.x series.)
--
Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
