Jack J. Woehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> [20:53:51 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/src/PerlSource/parrot]$ perl 
> Configure.pl --prefix=/usr/local/uplevel --cc=gcc --cxx=gcc

[ ... ]

> Determining your minimum pointer alignment............................Can't 
> determine alignment!

> [20:53:56 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/src/PerlSource/parrot]$ uname -a
> SunOS mitra 5.9 Generic_112233-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100 Solaris

This configure test is very machine and compiler dependent and not
really needed for Parrot (its a historical relict).

Please edit config/auto/alignptrs.pl and change runstep() to start with:

      Configure::Data->set(ptr_alignment => 4);
      return;

or 8, if your system is 64 bit.

leo

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