On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:28:30 -0000, "Jonathan Worthington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>----- Original Message ----- >From: "Pete Lomax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Jonathan Worthington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 6:59 PM >Subject: Re: For info only, open/read broken on 3/12 pow build > > >>>And building it on Win98 from the source does work, I'm guessing? >>I've never managed it. It took me about three weeks to get >>Configure.pl to run, now make dies with the message: >> >>Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at >>lib/Parrot/OpsFile.pm line 432. >> >>which I can't get past >OK, so we could be looking at a problem with Parrot on Win98 in general, I >guess. Your 15/11 build works fine > Does my POW build work under other Windows versions for the test you >gave me (it worked here)? Sorry, no access to other windows versions. I'll ask on another list. > >May I ask in what way the example doesn't work on Win98? Crash? Exception? >Does nothing? Does nothing. > I do have access to WinME, which is essentially Win98 with >more bugs and less stability, so I can take a look into why there are so >many problems (and hey, now I've learnt some C, I might be able to fix >something). > >My best guess on at least some of the building problems is that the 98 shell >is probably even worse than the XP one, and doesn't do stuff like we'd >expect. I could be way off. I've installed minGW/MSYS, so I have a cut down bash. So far, it hasn't really been shell problems, just uncharted territory: it's just that no-one else on this list is sad enough to be running 98 ;-) > >If you have time, please could you do me a favour? Go to a command prompt >in 98, change to the pow directory and do:- > >perl t/harness > >And send me the output. Erm, well, in pow 23/12 this dies rather horribly 'cos there is no lib directory & hence no Parrot/Test.pm, and no include directory & hence no header files. On the snapshot I've been playing with, and got Configure.pl to run on, (29/11, I'll download a fresh one if you think it will help), the output is rather large: $ perl t/harness t/src/basic.........# 'gcc -g t/src/basic_1.o -o t/src/basic_1.exe blib/lib/libparrot.a -lmsvcrt' failed with exit code 1 # Failed to build 't/src/basic_1.exe': gcc: blib/lib/libparrot.a: No such file or directory # Failed test (t/src/basic.t at line 5) <.. snip 212K of similar ..> so it looks like there is a wee problem with the following line in my Makefile: LIBPARROT = blib/lib/libparrot$(A) I have no idea what it should read instead, or where it came from. Regards, Pete
