... and now, adding Jerry Gay's comment: excellent! this came together quickly and simply, by the looks of it. the patch format is fine, especially for a first patch (for more details of our precise requirements you can read docs/submissions.pod). one gotcha, you've got 'use Config;' which pulls info from perl, when you should be using Parrot::Config instead. it should be an easy switch from $Config{myarchname} to $PConfig{archname}, if i understand correctly.
as far as i'm concerned, with that simple change this patch can be applied--and anyone familiar with perl can make that change, it doesn't have to be michael. ~jerry