On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 06:22:32PM -0700, Ron Schmidt via RT wrote: > > > > http://ftp.parrot.org/releases/devel/4.5.0/parrot-4.5.0.tar.gz > > > > If you can explode this tarball and build Parrot under Cygwin then > > I agree it's a Star issue. Otherwise, I'd want to get an upstream > > fix from Parrot (unless they refuse, at which point we'll make > > a workaround in Star somehow). > > Well I unpacked the tarball and parrot built OK under cygwin. I also > noticed that phony appeared before phony.exe in the packing order for > parrot and the opposite for rakudo star. I asked on IRC and learned that > parrot was tarred on linux.
I'm guessing that it has to do with the packing order, then. The script we use to build Rakudo Star doesn't do any sorting of its MANIFEST, thus phony does end up coming after phony.exe . So, if we just change that script to keep the MANIFEST sorted before building the tarball (thus putting phony before phony.exe, as Parrot does), that should avoid the problems with extracting files under Cygwin. I'll send you a link to a new tarball to try out under Cygwin; if that works then we can close this ticket. Thanks! Pm
