No complaints; no smoke failures; resolving ticket.
Applied to trunk in r21956.
To summarize a bit of off-line correspondence with Allison and chromatic:
Allison wrote today:
"I can see why the [configuration step] object would be useful for
retrieving more information. In fact, the whole question of success,
failure, and whether the step should be fatal could be stored i
Allison has pointed out one error in the part of the patch referring to
lib/Parrot/Configure.pm. This comment, which describes what happens
*some* of the time when a particular config step DWIMs, should have been
deleted.
# When successful, a Parrot configuration step returns itself,
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This patch is submitted in response to a question which I posed in
http://rt.perl.org/
