I'm fiddling with a compiler called tcc (i'll add it to tinderbox shortly). It was complaining that struct _vtable was not completely defined while building one of the test programs in Configure.pl. It was right- at that point we generate an empty version of vtable.h, so this struct isn't defined.
I've stuck in a dummy definition which allows it to get past that point: Index: Configure.pl =================================================================== RCS file: /home/perlcvs/parrot/Configure.pl,v retrieving revision 1.71 diff -u -r1.71 Configure.pl --- Configure.pl 4 Jan 2002 22:13:58 -0000 1.71 +++ Configure.pl 5 Jan 2002 05:58:01 -0000 @@ -499,6 +499,7 @@ my %newc; open NEEDED, ">include/parrot/vtable.h"; + print NEEDED "/* dummy */ struct _vtable { int a; };\n"; close NEEDED; buildfile("testparrotsizes_c"); compiletestc("testparrotsizes");