I think that I have perhaps discovered the solution to my inability to
compile parrot after 0.0.4.
It turns out that many (all?) things were compiling. I got a parrot.o,
for example. So none of the suspected problems with long long or cgoto
are now suspect. I was, for some reason, failing to link at the end,
but for some reason cc didn't return an error, so make didn't return an
error.
It turns out that the flags beign passed to my linker were
"-flat_namespace -L/usr/local/lib -L/sw/lib -flat_namespace" [sic]
Removing the second "-flat_namespace" worked.
The two questions:
1. Why don't other people run into this? Does this not show up if
you've built a perl later than 5.6.1 (which, IIRC, don't require
the explicit argument of -Dldflags=-flat_namespace upon Configure)?
2. Why didn't this cause a problem in parrot-0.0.4, where the option
was also duplicated (as I have later checked)?
Anyway, with the following patch I can just acccept all the defaults in
Configure.pl, then make; make test with no problems.
Index: hints/darwin.pl
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/perlcvs/parrot/hints/darwin.pl,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 darwin.pl
--- hints/darwin.pl 8 Feb 2002 06:25:38 -0000 1.4
+++ hints/darwin.pl 22 Apr 2002 03:45:49 -0000
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
$c{ccflags} .= " -I/sw/include";
$c{ccflags} =~ s/-flat_namespace\s*//;
+$c{ldflags} =~ s/-flat_namespace\s*//;
$c{ldflags} .= " -L/sw/lib -flat_namespace ";
$c{libs} .= " -ldl";
$c{cc_warn} = "-Wno-shadow"
--
David "Cogent" Hand
<http://davidhand.com/> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <icq:4321282>
