On Fri, 30 May 2008, James Keenan via RT wrote:
> That will probably be possible. But as I was staring at
> config/gen/makefiles/root.in, I couldn't figure out where $(PARROT_ARGS)
> is originally defined in line such as this:
>
> test : test_prep
> $(PERL) t/harness $(EXTRA_TEST_ARGS) $(PARROT_ARGS)
> So can anyone identify the source of $(PARROT_ARGS)?
I believe that it was originally intended as a mechanism for the end
user to pass additional arguments to the parrot executable. For
example,
make test PARROT_ARGS=-D40
(though that -D40 has been useless for a couple of years now)
Alas, I suspect it probably doesn't generally work. I seem to recall that
t/harness doesn't pass through unrecognized arguments, so something
sensible-looking like
make test PARROT_ARGS='--runcore=gcdebug'
won't actually work.
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Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
