On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Andrew Whitworth via RT wrote: > On Fri Mar 31 13:29:46 2006, leo wrote: > > I've tried: > > > > $ perl Configure.pl --cc=gcc --link=gcc --ld=gcc --cxx=gcc > > --verbose-step=gcc > > > > and got: > > > > Determining if your C compiler is actually gcc...gcc > > -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -xarch=v8 -D_TS_ERRNO > > -I./include -c test.c > > gcc: language arch=v8 not recognized > > > > From perl -V: > > Compiler: > > cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 > > -xarch=v8 -D_TS_ERRNO', > > optimize='-xO3 -xspace -xildoff', > > > > That is, our config system is still using perl5 config vars blindly w/o > > further inspection and ignores commandline option at least partially.
> This ticket is over two years old and the problem described appears to > be, at least in part, dependent on the faulty config system of years > gone by. The ticket may be old, but we still have the same faulty config system. > Do we have any Solaris users who can double-check this and see > if we still have a problem here? Yes, we still have exactly the same problem. Anyone can check this by editing their perl Config settings and seeing that they get passed through unquestioningly to parrot. -- Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]