On Friday 29 July 2011 12:34:17 Allison Randal wrote: > perlapi is for XS modules, and dh_perl only adds perlapi-<version> if it > encounters compiled .so XS modules (read the source code for dh_perl). > But Parrot doesn't have any XS modules, and neither does Storable. > > This is not the right fix. > > What's actually going on is that Parrot is storing some configuration > variables in a plain-text format (what Storable writes). Some tools used > by Rakudo are then reading that plain-text format (using Storable to > read it). > > The fundamental problem is that Storable was never intended to be used > for persistent data files. Even in Parrot, the usage of Storable is > supposed to be temporary during the build process. But, a few language > build tools designed to be used with a Parrot build directory are now > being installed. The real fix is to make all installed tools use the > parrot_config tool (which contains all the same data) instead of using > the fragile Storable text file. I'll move this bug upstream, it's not a > packaging problem.
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