Hello, I'm the maintainer of the parrot Debian packages which are in Debian unstable now. All Debian packages usually get built by the Debian build daemon network so binaries for all architectures are available to the users. This was also done with parrot. The [0] results scared me a bit. Parrot only built fine on 3 architectures beside the i386-linux I am running and failed for the rest.
0. http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=parrot Therefor I want to make parrot a bit more portable. For some architectures (mips, mipsel, arm, ..) the build failures are most probably caused because jit is broken on those architectures. I haven't looked very much into it yet. So volunteers are welcome. Currently I'm trying to make it work on ia64. The reason for the failing build on that arch is that the asm bits necessary for ia64 aren't copied in the right place and compiled, so we get unresolved symbols on linking everything together. So I took a look at the code that should handle those things. Beside it's ragged between several scripts in config/ it's also very unportable. As the platform only perl's $^O ($OSNAME) is used. So it's hard to differenciate between subarchitectures of an operating system such as ia64-linux and ppc-linux. I want to do the necessary changes, but I need some help. For example the exact value of $^O and $Config{archname} for several architectures would be helpful. I currently have access to arm, s390, ppc, alpha, mips, mipsel, sparc, m68k, hppa and ia64 linux machines. It would be good if others could provide some infos about other architectures, especially non-linux ones. After I've collected enough informations I'll start implementing the necessary changes. I hope it'll be done by the end of this week. I'm not sure how I should handle that though. I guess it might break parrot building for a while. So shall I do it in trunk, do a local svk branch and provide snapshots or bloat the repository some more and create a new svn branch? Regards, Flo -- BOFH excuse #144: Too few computrons available.
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