On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 06:00:39AM -0700, Will Coleda via RT wrote: > Interesting. I tried to duplicate this error by removing my platform's > hints file and re-running. I get the message you describe, but then > Configure.pl completes, and at the -end-, gracefully says: > > During configuration the following steps failed: > 01: init::manifest > 05: init::hints > You should diagnose and fix these errors before calling 'make' > > Did you get this far, or did Configure.pl just stop completely for you > where your log cuts off?
That was the end. The next line was a prompt. > Now, the desired behavior here IMO should be that if we can't find a > hints file for your platform... the build should continue with no > problems or warnings, except that perhaps in verbose mode we say > something like "no hints file, assuming defaults.". That sounds reasonable. > The offending line is in config/init/hints.pm, where we say: > > eval "use $hints"; > die $@ if $@; > > We should probably first check to see if the file exists before running > the use statement; then the die is only because of invalid perl, not > "file not found." > > Your workaround, btw, is probably: > > touch config/init/hints/hurd.pm I'll try this when I get home. > Thanks for the report, I'm interested to see how we do here once we get > past this small config bump. Well, that's what I thought: "Hmm, I've got this new Hurd install, I wonder if parrot will run on it." This is definitely just an experiment. Kind of uber-geek if we get it working, though. -kolibrie
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