Rereading this excellent summary, I note that I did not keep people posted on my problem.
> Stephane Payrard asked about some problems he had encountered creating > the magical all in one Siva PMC. Leo provided a helpful prod towards > LVALUE_CAST. The other problems may or may not related to the mandrake > cooker. Hopefully someone will tell us. > So I do. Mandrake cooker was not in cause. My sloppiness was. As a general rule, when the parrot compilation fails, one should do a 'make realclean' to restart with a clean slate. I did not and pick remnants of a obolete configuration. -- stef