Hi,
after Nick found it quite interesting to try the Vax I had a little time to
try it out yesterday. The main problem I ran into was that OpenBSD does not
support dynamic linking on Vax hardware. As I don't understand the configure
things completely I just manually changed has_headers.h to
#undef PARROT_HAS_HEADER_DLFCN
which was formerly set to 1. If I understand it correctly the Configure.pl
stuff checks only for the existence of this headers, but not really if
dynamic loading is really supported. OpenBSD on Vax has this dlfcn.h file,
but no dynamic linking. Maybe this should be a little more robust.
The results of the test suite are here:
http://www.thiesen.org/parrottest/vax-openbsd-3.5-beta.txt
As you can see, there are a lot of core dumps and strange failing stuff. Maybe
I find some time next week to have a closer look into that.
Have fun,
Marcus
P.S.: I send a Patch yesterday to change the misc.h file for the openbsd
platform gen stuff, but the automatic ticket creation said in the end "this
transaction appears to have no content". This is either confusing or the
system doesn't handle my emails correctly. Did this patch arrive?
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