Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Something for people to work on, and something that can be worked on > piecemeal (which is good). We need to make parrot's build less > dependent on the flags set in the current perl install, especially > for things like the C compiler and linker flags.
... and data types, I've to add. I've a home grown perl around from these days, when it was needed, to build a parrot with "long double" support. This perl is of course the default, because I've not found the time to build another one[1] (and it doesn't hurt) except I now have to: $ perl Configure.pl --floatval=double to get again a default FLOATVAL size. The same story holds for INTVAL. And due to all void* <=> INTVAL conversions, it's really unlikely that a configuration that has different sizes for this type will ever work. > So... if folks would like to take a shot, ... then thanks too, leo [1] which of course isn't true - I've another one with threads enabled - but that doesn't really matter - a non-standard perl evokes too much non-default config on parrot.
