Andy, Thanks for the bug report! This is good info to know :-)
> A nightly cvs update and make smoke and I've been seeing failures for > about a week. I tried parrotbug but got no response. Here's the failing > call Have you been using the parrotbug script? If so, it is known that it doesn't work properly, and the common way (currently only way, I believe) to submit bug reports is via [EMAIL PROTECTED] That part of the parrot website probably needs updating. > cc -I./include -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS > -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DHASATTRIBUTE_CONST > -DHASATTRIBUTE_DEPRECATED -DHASATTRIBUTE_MALLOC -DHASATTRIBUTE_NORETURN > -DHASATTRIBUTE_PURE -DHASATTRIBUTE_UNUSED -g -W -Wall -Waggregate-return > -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -Wchar-subscripts -Wcomment > -Wdisabled-optimization -Wformat-nonliteral -Wformat-security -Wformat-y2k > -Wimplicit -Wimplicit-function-declaration -Wimplicit-int -Wimport > -Winit-self -Winline -Winvalid-pch -Wmain -Wmissing-braces > -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wno-unused > -Wnonnull -Wold-style-definition -Wpacked -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith > -Wreturn-type -Wsequence-point -Wshadow -Wsign-compare -Wstrict-aliasing > -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -Wstrict-prototypes -Wswitch -Wnested-externs -Wundef > -Wunknown-pragmas -Wwrite-strings -Wsign-compare -falign-functions=16 > -Wdisabled-optimization -Wformat-nonliteral -Wformat-security > -mno-accumulate-outgoing-args -Wno-shadow -Wpacked -DHAS_JIT -DI386 > -DHAVE_COMPUTED_GOTO -fPIC -I. -o xx.o -c xx.c > src/string.c > cc1: error: unrecognized option `-Winit-self' > cc1: error: unrecognized option `-Winvalid-pch' > cc1: error: unrecognized option `-Wold-style-definition' > cc1: error: unrecognized option `-Wstrict-aliasing=2' > make: *** [src/string.o] Error 1 This should be corrected as of revision 21619. Could you confirm that this works for you? Many thanks! BTW: the configuration output you sent was great! It gave me a lot of help in finding out where to fix the problem quickly and easily: thank you :-) Paul