Re: The Saga of Building Parrot : ICU

2004-11-07 Thread Jeff Clites
On Nov 7, 2004, at 12:10 PM, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Jack J. Woehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay, I now configured perl Configure.pl --prefix=/usr/local/uplevel --cc=gcc --cxx=gcc --icuplatform=sparc-sun-solaris2.9 The build bombs in: string_set_data_directory: ICU data files not fou

Re: [perl #32280] [PATCH] Detects presence of perldoc at configuration time

2004-11-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't like the build blowing up on me when there is no perldoc, and on > some machines that I use I'm not in a position to change this. So, as opinions aren't really matching, let's try this approach: The configure step from that patch doesn't bail o

Re: The Saga of Building Parrot : ICU

2004-11-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Jack J. Woehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, I now configured > perl Configure.pl --prefix=/usr/local/uplevel --cc=gcc --cxx=gcc > --icuplatform=sparc-sun-solaris2.9 > The build bombs in: > string_set_data_directory: ICU data files not found(apparently) for > directory [/usr/loca

Re: Streams and Filters (Ticket #31921)

2004-11-07 Thread Robert Spier
> (In my opinion, the line-ending issue isn't a problem for Parrot in > terms of this test--it's legitimate to expect that you can process a > particular file, not matter what platform you happen to be on, and no > matter if the file happens to have been created on another platform.) Also, the pro

Re: The Saga of Building Parrot : ICU

2004-11-07 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Nicholas Clark wrote: > So I think that deleting the empty directory /usr/local/uplevel for the > duration of the build should solve your problem. Removed the dir, finished the build, recreated the dir, and make install worked. Now on to actually *trying out* Parrot ... as a former ANSForth Tech

Basic compilation example (a + b)?

2004-11-07 Thread Jeff Clites
What pasm is supposed to correspond to this snippet of Python code (assume this is inside a function, so these can be considered to be local variables): a = 7 b = 12 c = a + b Just a basic compilation question, brought to mind by a recent thread, because the answer isn't

Re: Suggested warning

2004-11-07 Thread Larry Wall
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 12:40:45PM -0500, Aaron Sherman wrote: : I would like to suggest that we define: : : multi sub *infix:+(...) {...} : : Will always generate a warning (not just for C, but for any : operator) if used outside of a class definition or if used inside a : class definition

Re: [perl #32356] AutoReply: [PATCH] update to embed.pod

2004-11-07 Thread Stéphane Payrard
I apparently forgot to attach the file > > > There is now a call to set the core and another to set the other > flags. I updated the code and the doc to reflect that. > > -- > stef > --- docs/embed.pod.orig 2004-09-16 15:11:55.0 +0200 +++ docs/embed.pod 2004-11-07 23:51:59.998632

Re: anonimity

2004-11-07 Thread Larry Wall
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 06:19:05PM -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: : It eliminates the hackish division of circumfix operators by making : each side explicit. This is an improvement if you ask me. More importantly, it avoids having to enumerate a list of characters that have to be backslashed.

Re: anonimity

2004-11-07 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 12:32:11AM +0100, Juerd wrote: > Hurrah, even more use of ÂÂ. But that is okay, as I have nearly half of > my terminals configured now, so that I can input and view them. Excellent! As soon as you have the other half configured you'll be ready for perl6 (and by that time i

Re: anonimity

2004-11-07 Thread Juerd
Hurrah, even more use of «». But that is okay, as I have nearly half of my terminals configured now, so that I can input and view them. I don't understand why it is needed, though. Why wasn't infix:+ good enough? infix:«+» and infix:{'+'} are more linenoise, and IMHO it's far from elegant. Juer

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-23 through 2004-11-01

2004-11-07 Thread Stéphane Payrard
Rereading this excellent summary, I note that I did not keep people posted on my problem. > Stephane Payrard asked about some problems he had encountered creating > the magical all in one Siva PMC. Leo provided a helpful prod towards > LVALUE_CAST. The other problems may or may not rel

Re: The Saga of Building Parrot : ICU

2004-11-07 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 02:57:04PM -0800, Jeff Clites wrote: > On Nov 7, 2004, at 3:20 PM, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > > >Nicholas Clark wrote: > > > >>On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 01:17:28PM -0700, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > >>>Okay, I now configured > >>> > >>> perl Configure.pl --prefix=/usr/local/upleve

[perl #32356] [PATCH] update to embed.pod

2004-11-07 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Stephane Payrard # Please include the string: [perl #32356] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=32356 > There is now a call to set the core and another to set the other flags. I updated

Re: The Saga of Building Parrot : ICU

2004-11-07 Thread Jeff Clites
On Nov 7, 2004, at 3:20 PM, Jack J. Woehr wrote: Nicholas Clark wrote: On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 01:17:28PM -0700, Jack J. Woehr wrote: Okay, I now configured perl Configure.pl --prefix=/usr/local/uplevel --cc=gcc --cxx=gcc --icuplatform=sparc-sun-solaris2.9 The build bombs in: string_set

Re: No C op with PMC arguments? (Modified by Jeff Clites)

2004-11-07 Thread Jeff Clites
[missed cc-ing the list when I sent this originally] On Nov 5, 2004, at 10:39 AM, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: Jeff Clites <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are a myriad of interesting mathematical types and operations, but they don't need dedicated ops to support them. But we're not talking abo

Re: Streams and Filters (Ticket #31921)

2004-11-07 Thread Jeff Clites
On Nov 7, 2004, at 2:25 AM, Jens Rieks wrote: On Sunday 07 November 2004 09:48, Leopold Toetsch wrote: * where exactly is the mismatch coming from? Unix uses "\n" to indicate end-of-line, windows uses "\r\n". The problem is, that the "perlhist.txt" file is checked in as a text file. I'll recommit

Re: The Saga of Building Parrot : ICU

2004-11-07 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 01:17:28PM -0700, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > > Okay, I now configured > > > > perl Configure.pl --prefix=/usr/local/uplevel --cc=gcc --cxx=gcc > > --icuplatform=sparc-sun-solaris2.9 > > > > The build bombs in: > > > > string_set_data_directory

Re: No C op with PMC arguments?

2004-11-07 Thread Jeff Clites
On Nov 4, 2004, at 5:24 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: [Referring to infix operators as an alternate syntax for a named method call] What's the downside of compiling this code in this way? If you are a Python programmer and all the objects that you are dealing with were created by Python code, then not m

Re: No C op with PMC arguments?

2004-11-07 Thread Jeff Clites
On Nov 5, 2004, at 10:03 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: Jeff Clites wrote: a) As Sam says, in Python "y**z" is just shorthand for "y.__pow__(z)"--they will compile down to exactly the same thing (required for Python to behave correctly). Since __pow__ isn't "special", we don't need anything to support it t

Re: No C op with PMC arguments?

2004-11-07 Thread Jeff Clites
On Nov 5, 2004, at 9:40 AM, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Jeff Clites <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: a) As Sam says, in Python "y**z" is just shorthand for "y.__pow__(z)"--they will compile down to exactly the same thing (required for Python to behave correctly). I don't think so (and you can replace with add

Re: The Saga of Building Parrot : ICU

2004-11-07 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 01:17:28PM -0700, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > Okay, I now configured > > perl Configure.pl --prefix=/usr/local/uplevel --cc=gcc --cxx=gcc > --icuplatform=sparc-sun-solaris2.9 > > The build bombs in: > > string_set_data_directory: ICU data files not found(apparently)

The Saga of Building Parrot : ICU

2004-11-07 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Okay, I now configured perl Configure.pl --prefix=/usr/local/uplevel --cc=gcc --cxx=gcc --icuplatform=sparc-sun-solaris2.9 The build bombs in: string_set_data_directory: ICU data files not found(apparently) for directory [/usr/local/uplevel/blib/lib/icu/2.6.1]make: *** [runtime/parr

Re: Can't build Parrot

2004-11-07 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Configure::Data->set(ptr_alignment => 4); > return; Thanks, that configured, building now -- Jack J. Woehr # Ordinator consistetvr, PO Box 51, Golden, CO 80402 # redintegrandvs tandem http://www.well.com/~jax # tangenda qvodvis cla

Suggested warning

2004-11-07 Thread Aaron Sherman
I would like to suggest that we define: multi sub *infix:+(...) {...} Will always generate a warning (not just for C, but for any operator) if used outside of a class definition or if used inside a class definition where the current class does not appear in the list of parameters. That i

Re: [perl #32280] [PATCH] Detects presence of perldoc at configuration time

2004-11-07 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:22:36AM -0500, Andy Dougherty wrote: > On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, James deBoer wrote: > > > Some systems, notable Debian, ship perldoc and perl as seperate > > packages. The presence of Perl does not imply the presence of perldoc. > > > > This patch will test to see if perldoc

[perl #32354] [PATCH] update perlhist.txt

2004-11-07 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Bernhard Schmalhofer # Please include the string: [perl #32354] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=32354 > Hi, this patch updates 'perlhist.txt', which is used as a test case in 't/li

Re: Streams and Filters (Ticket #31921)

2004-11-07 Thread Jens Rieks
On Sunday 07 November 2004 09:48, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > * where exactly is the mismatch coming from? Unix uses "\n" to indicate end-of-line, windows uses "\r\n". The problem is, that the "perlhist.txt" file is checked in as a text file. I'll recommit it as a binary file in the hope that it fix

Re: Can't build Parrot

2004-11-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Jack J. Woehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [20:53:51 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/src/PerlSource/parrot]$ perl > Configure.pl --prefix=/usr/local/uplevel --cc=gcc --cxx=gcc [ ... ] > Determining your minimum pointer alignmentCan't > determine alignment! > [20:53:56

Re: Streams and Filters (Ticket #31921)

2004-11-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have looked into the t/library/streams.t failures on win32 (Ticket > #31921). They arise from the \r\n line separator on Windows. Can you please elaborate a bit more on the exact problem of the test: * is the test testing wrong things? * does Parrot pro