Hints need to come *before* inter/progs. The hints set up various platform-specific callbacks to be performed after the different programs are selected. Actually, I suspect they should even come before the init::install unit. Certainly in perl5's hints, there are a number that modify the default installation directories. However, I don't understand parrot's installation plan, so I have left this alone.
--- parrot-current/Configure.pl Sat Mar 17 18:15:17 2007 +++ parrot-andy/Configure.pl Wed Mar 21 11:05:41 2007 @@ -463,9 +463,9 @@ init::defaults init::install init::miniparrot - inter::progs init::hints init::headers + inter::progs inter::make inter::lex inter::yacc -- Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]