[I am sending this to perl6-compiler list because I don't know where else
to send it. Apologies if this is the wrong place.]
I recently tried to build MoarVM on Solaris 11/x86 with Sun's compiler
suite. After cloning moarvm and running 'perl Configure.pl' , I got
the following message:
Welcome to MoarVM!
Checking master build settings ........................ OK
(debug: YES, optimize: no, instrument: no, clang: no)
Trying to figure out how to build on your system ...... Sorry, I'm not sure
how to build on this platform:
No recognized operating system or compiler found. found: solaris
FAILED
It seems build/Config/BuildEnvironment.pm only knows about a few systems.
It was easy enough to hack in a 'cc' block for Solaris to get past that,
but I then noticed it went and ran an autoconf configure script down
in 3rdparty/apr.
I was wondering . . . would it make sense to run apr's configure script
first and use those results to help set up Config/BuildEnvironment?
That way, MoarVM could avoid building yet another Configure system,
and instead could leverage the existing one that it's going to run anyway.
--
Andy Dougherty dough...@lafayette.edu
