Re: Parrot and Dynamic Loading (Mainly MacOS X)

2008-05-01 Thread Alberto Simões
chromatic wrote: I vote for fixing the buggy test (no pcre, no reason to run the tests) but not working around standard dynamic library loading. It is not that easy (I think). Also, I do not know much about these things, so let me try explain some more details. 1) the configure step finds

Re: Parrot and Dynamic Loading (Mainly MacOS X)

2008-05-01 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 12:19:06PM -0700, chromatic wrote: > I'm not sure. Why add special logic to Parrot to find poorly-installed > libraries? If you install a dynamic library outside of your normal system > library paths, no other program will find it. If you want other things to > find it

Re: Parrot and Dynamic Loading (Mainly MacOS X)

2008-05-01 Thread chromatic
On Thursday 01 May 2008 12:07:47 Alberto Simões wrote: > There was a test (test three from t/examples/library.t) that was failing > and failing under MacOS X. That test relies on libpcre that is not > available by default on MacOS X. It seems to me that the test should skip itself if dynamic load

Parrot and Dynamic Loading (Mainly MacOS X)

2008-05-01 Thread Alberto Simões
Hi, Folks I am kind of 'out' from Parrot for a long time, and probably there is something that I am missing. There was a test (test three from t/examples/library.t) that was failing and failing under MacOS X. That test relies on libpcre that is not available by default on MacOS X. If you u