looks like get the major OS version number is enough.
2006/12/8, via RT James Keenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
# New Ticket Created by James Keenan # Please include the string: [perl #41055] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41055 > While running 'perl Configure.pl' last night, I got the following warning: Loading platform and local hints files...Argument "8.8.0" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at config/init/hints/darwin.pm line 19. .............................done. Here is the offending code in config/init/hints/darwin.pm my $OSVers = `uname -r`; chomp $OSVers; { local $^W; if ($OSVers >= 7) { # <---- line 19 $libs =~ s/-ldl//; } } Here is the output of 'uname -r' [parrot] 522 $ uname -r 8.8.0 The old 3-level version number problem. I know we've dealt with this in Perl, so I assume someone can patch this for Parrot. kid51 --- Summary of my parrot 0.4.7 (r16048) configuration: configdate='Thu Dec 7 21:06:30 2006' Platform: osname=darwin, archname=darwin-2level jitcapable=1, jitarchname=ppc-darwin, jitosname=DARWIN, jitcpuarch=ppc execcapable=1 perl=perl Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags='-fno-common -no-cpp-precomp -pipe -I/usr/ local/include -pipe -fno-common -Wno-long-double ', Linker and Libraries: ld='c++', ldflags=' -L/usr/local/lib -L/Users/jimk/work/parrot/ blib/lib -flat_namespace ', cc_ldflags='', libs='-lm -lgmp' Dynamic Linking: share_ext='.dylib', ld_share_flags='-dynamiclib -undefined suppress', load_ext='.bundle', ld_load_flags='-bundle -undefined suppress' Types: iv=long, intvalsize=4, intsize=4, opcode_t=long, opcode_t_size=4, ptrsize=4, ptr_alignment=1 byteorder=4321, nv=double, numvalsize=8, doublesize=8 --- Environment: DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH HOME LANG LANGUAGE LD_LIBRARY_PATH LOGDIR PATH SHELL --- osname= darwin osvers= 8.0 arch= darwin-thread-multi-2level cc= cc --- Flags: category=install severity=low ack=no ---
