At 10:36 PM 11/3/2001 -0800, Brent Dax wrote:
>Well, for now we're using Perl for Configure, but that won't be possible
>in the final version. Nasty bootsrapping issues with that. :^)
You'd be surprised... :)
Seriously, miniparrot, enough to do simple file ops, spawn external
programs and check their statuses, and implement all the 'internal' stuff
(regexes and suchlike things) is pretty easily doable. Full and fancy
Parrot's a bigger task, but I think you'll find that we can provide a
static config.h/platform.c/platform.h set that'll get things built enough
to run a full probing configure, even on the odder platforms (Win32, VMS,
MVS, and WinCE).
Don't forget that we *also* will have to provide a shell-specific base
build script (DCL for VMS, batch for Windows, JCL (shudder) for MVS), so it
can do platform-specific copying of files for the initial build.
Dan
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