On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Patrick R. Michaud via RT wrote:
> On Fri Jun 12 11:36:31 2009, doughera wrote:
> > In the 'ins' branch, build/Makefile.in looks like it's heading down the
> > same wrong road as parrot. See parrot's TT #700 for more details and a
> > patch for parrot. I'd suggest a similar approach for rakudo.
> >
> > The problem is that while MS forbids a space, Solaris 8 requires one.
> > You can't win in the Makefile. 'make' is not a reliable textual
> > susbtitution tool when leading or trailing blanks are involved.
>
> I've started a new branch ("ins2") based on a more recent Rakudo and the
> latest Parrot release (1.4.0), and incorporated this patch there. Let
> me know if it works better on MS and Solaris than what we had before.
Yes, I think that fixes the space problem for Solaris, and, as far as I
am concerned, this ticket may be closed.
Unfortunately, I've been unable to test it. Building parrot with Sun's
compiler fails (TT #652). I was able to build parrot with gcc, but the
rakudo build got stuck on the second step, running nqp.pbc against
src/parser/actions.pm. After 3 and a half hours, it still hadn't produced
any obvious output. The system was swapping like mad, and I had to kill
the process so I could get other work done.
Still, the generated Makefile looks ok to me on Solaris.
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Andy Dougherty dough...@lafayette.edu
