Re: Cross-compiling Parrot

2007-02-27 Thread Allison Randal
Aldo Calpini wrote: Allison Randal ha scritto: We do. Unfortunately we can't rely on Perl 5 for the configure system. It may seem like an easy way to gain cross-compilation in the short term, but in the long term it will hurt us. Miniparrot is the right way to go. It certainly needs work,

Re: Cross-compiling Parrot

2007-02-23 Thread Aldo Calpini
Allison Randal ha scritto: We do. Unfortunately we can't rely on Perl 5 for the configure system. It may seem like an easy way to gain cross-compilation in the short term, but in the long term it will hurt us. Miniparrot is the right way to go. It certainly needs work, though. As you're

Re: Cross-compiling Parrot

2007-02-21 Thread Aldo Calpini
jerry gay ha scritto: On 2/20/07, Aldo Calpini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) does anybody have objections to patching the current build system for cross-compilation (even yes, but not now because... objections)? no objection here! this is a long-desired feature, and is currently unavailable.

Re: Cross-compiling Parrot

2007-02-21 Thread Aldo Calpini
Joshua Isom ha scritto: Using perl 5's configure probes also somewhat limits us to how the vendor distributed perl. It should also be considered that we can't rely on perl5 being available, especially since we intend to replace it eventually, so rewriting all the perl to support cross

Re: Cross-compiling Parrot

2007-02-21 Thread Allison Randal
Aldo Calpini wrote: 1) does anybody have objections to patching the current build system for cross-compilation (even yes, but not now because... objections)? Not at all. Cross-compilation is definitely a core goal for Parrot. 2) does anybody already have a .plan or something in mind about

Cross-compiling Parrot

2007-02-20 Thread Aldo Calpini
back in 2004, Dan Sugalski wrote: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals/2004/09/msg25521.html nowadays my effort of porting Parrot to the PocketPC platform, as you may have suspected, force me to reopen the question. there is, I know, a lot of work to be done. and this will

Re: Cross-compiling Parrot

2007-02-20 Thread jerry gay
On 2/20/07, Aldo Calpini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: back in 2004, Dan Sugalski wrote: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals/2004/09/msg25521.html nowadays my effort of porting Parrot to the PocketPC platform, as you may have suspected, force me to reopen the question. there is, I

Re: Cross-compiling Parrot

2007-02-20 Thread Joshua Isom
On Feb 20, 2007, at 8:44 AM, jerry gay wrote: On 2/20/07, Aldo Calpini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no objection here! this is a long-desired feature, and is currently unavailable. although i don't have a pocketpc to test on, i'll do my best to help. for years, the dependence on perl 5's configure

Re: Cross-compiling Parrot

2007-02-20 Thread chromatic
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 03:55, Aldo Calpini wrote: 2) does anybody already have a .plan or something in mind about it (so that I may either learn from what others have thought, or avoiding reinventing some wheel)? It would be nice, though I don't know how feasable it is, to be able to

Re: Cross-compiling Parrot

2004-10-18 Thread Steve Fink
On Oct-17, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 9:49 AM -0400 10/17/04, Jacques Mony wrote: Hello, I'm trying to port parrot to the unununium operating system, which uses a modified version of 'diet lib c'. Can anyone tell me if this is actually possible to force the use of this library using the

Cross-compiling Parrot

2004-10-17 Thread Jacques Mony
Hello, I'm trying to port parrot to the unununium operating system, which uses a modified version of 'diet lib c'. Can anyone tell me if this is actually possible to force the use of this library using the current Configure.pl script or if I will need to change it a lot... or even replace it

Re: Cross-compiling Parrot

2004-10-17 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:49 AM -0400 10/17/04, Jacques Mony wrote: Hello, I'm trying to port parrot to the unununium operating system, which uses a modified version of 'diet lib c'. Can anyone tell me if this is actually possible to force the use of this library using the current Configure.pl script or if I will

Cross Compiling parrot?

2004-09-01 Thread Robert Schwebel
Hi, Did anybody try to crosscompile parrot? It doesn't seem to work. I tried it with parrot_2004-08-26_23 by setting --cc=arm-softfloat-linux-gnu-gcc --ld=arm-softfloat-linux-gnu-gcc on configure, but that fails with: --8-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/parrot

Re: Cross Compiling parrot?

2004-09-01 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 7:32 PM +0200 9/1/04, Robert Schwebel wrote: Hi, Did anybody try to crosscompile parrot? It doesn't seem to work. That doesn't surprise me. We still pull information out of the local perl install (which'll be wrong, of course, in a cross-compilation environment) and I'm pretty sure we don't