MrJoltCola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 06:24 PM 4/6/2005, Chip Salzenberg wrote: >> * What platforms are required for release? I'd guess that we'd get >> almost of all of our developers (and users, for that matter) with: >> >> darwin >> linux-x86-gcc3.* >> win32-ms-cl
> You should round that out with 64-bit Sparc.
You are volunteering for running smoke tests regularly ;-) Patches to PLATFORMS are equally welcome.
Which I still do periodically. I don't know when/why Sparc ever fell out of the mix. This was the reference platform for the byteordering patches.
We should add linux-x86_64-gcc3.* to the list of primary targets. But we should make sure that these targets are really tested, at best with an official tinderbox setup again.
Where did Tinderbox go anyway? I don't mind running a tinderclient at all.
I can tell you now Sparc / GCC is broken for most due to our broken Configure.
Our config pulls out the params that were used to build Perl with, and this is invalid
because most Sparc folks are running a pre-built Perl and GCC binary that was built
on a distributor's system. So for example, even though the system will have both
Perl and GCC, Perl's config will say it was built with Sun's CC compiler. Configure
fails and has to be hand hacked to work, or you have to build your own Perl to get
the config before you build Parrot (not too tough, but should not be required).
-Melvin
