On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Patrick R. Michaud via RT wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:56:14AM -0700, Andy Dougherty via RT wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Patrick R. Michaud via RT wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Is Rakudo trunk able to build on Solaris, or is it just the 'ins2'
> branch that is giving difficulty?
I don't know for sure, but I'd expect trunk to behave similarly. That
particular system doesn't have a lot of RAM, and rakudo has always been
difficult to build. I don't think it's anything relevant for the ins2
branch.
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Andy Dougherty [email protected]
