Re: Another deadlock on Mac OS 10.5.1

2007-12-30 Thread chromatic
On Sunday 30 December 2007 12:14:04 Andy Armstrong wrote: > t/examples/shootout.t                      (Wstat: 2560 Tests: 20   > Failed: 10) >    Failed test number(s):  3, 6-11, 17-19 >    Non-zero exit status: 10 > Files=533, Tests=10515, 1609 wallclock secs (25.43 usr  3.37 sys +   > 1310.02 c

[perl #49238] [PATCH] pbc_to_exe compile failure on Win32 / MSVC9

2007-12-30 Thread Cosimo Streppone
# New Ticket Created by "Cosimo Streppone" # Please include the string: [perl #49238] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49238 > I tried to follow chromatic's instructions to obtain a perl6 binary but had some p

[perl #49236] Segfault generating config.fpmc durring build

2007-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Joseph Sadusk # Please include the string: [perl #49236] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49236 > I just updated parrot to svn rev 24322 and attempted to do a clean build. The build fa

[perl #49242] [CAGE] MANIFEST shouldn't skip every file containing the word 'debian'

2007-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Allison Randal # Please include the string: [perl #49242] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49242 > lib/Parrot/Manifest.pm contains the following lines: 37 # ignore the debian

Re: [perl #49222] t/library/mime_base64.t failing

2007-12-30 Thread Bob Rogers
From: chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:42:43 -0800 On Sunday 30 December 2007 10:02:53 Bob Rogers wrote: > I don't think so; it's not emitting any debugging output at all. > Inserting a strategically-placed PDB_backtrace call shows that this > fails in lin

[perl #48074] [PATCH] fix for pcre test if libpcre installed in non-standard location

2007-12-30 Thread James Keenan via RT
The patch has been in head for more than a week now, with no complaints. So I'm resolving the ticket. kid51

Re: Another deadlock on Mac OS 10.5.1

2007-12-30 Thread James E Keenan
Andy Armstrong wrote: Sorry if I've missed something recent that means that this is expected behaviour but r24318 is hanging during make test on Mac OS 10.5.1 / Intel. The test log and pictures of the process probe are here: http://hexten.net/junk/20071230-193600/ I also have a few

[perl #47127] [PATCH] t/configure/111-auto_gcc-01.t test failure

2007-12-30 Thread James Keenan via RT
Although larger issues about testing of Parrot configuration step classes remain outstanding (and will for some time), they're being tracked in other tickets. The immediate issue in this ticket seems resolved, as this test has been passing in all smoke reports for some time. So I'm closing the ti

[perl #45013] Configure fails if prefix ends with '/'

2007-12-30 Thread James Keenan via RT
I committed the most recent correction to this step class back on Sept 11 but forgot to resolve the ticket. No one has had any complaints, so I'm resolving it now. kid51

[perl #43307] [TODO] config/auto/aio.pm: Write unit tests

2007-12-30 Thread James Keenan via RT
The test coverage is quite high (http://thenceforward.net/parrot/coverage/configure-build/config-auto-aio-pm.html) and I don't think I can push it much higher. So I'm resolving the ticket. kid51

[perl #47998] r23293: Make smoke "invalid format" failure

2007-12-30 Thread James Keenan via RT
I got burned by this problem myself today. Fortunately, google had archived this thread, so the solution was easy: (1) Edit the html to replace the '0' revision number; (2) re-run smoke-server.pl; (3) upgrade Subversion.

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2007-12-30 Thread Shane Calimlim
On Dec 30, 2007 8:10 AM, Jonathan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's say that the programmer in question wants to comment out all but > the third line; so he prefixes everything else with '#': > > #if ($test) > #{ >.say; > #} else { > # .doit; > #} > > What the writer _wants_ this t

Why different results with 'make smoke' from 'make test'

2007-12-30 Thread James E Keenan
From 'make test': t/dynpmc/foo.ok 1/9 skipped: various reasons t/dynpmc/gdbmhashok t/dynpmc/rationalok 1/8 skipped: various reasons ... and these have been the results for these tests for mont

am I doing something wrong - hanoi example with 0.5.1 parrot release

2007-12-30 Thread Aaron Trevena
running the example at http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/examples/algorithms/hanoi.pl parrot ~/downloads/parrot-0.5.1/languages/perl6/perl6.pbc hanoi.pl I get.. Null PMC access in isa() current instr.: 'parrot;Perl6Object;make_proto' pc 55 (src/gen_builtins.pir:76) called from Sub 'parrot;Bool;onload

Another deadlock on Mac OS 10.5.1

2007-12-30 Thread Andy Armstrong
Sorry if I've missed something recent that means that this is expected behaviour but r24318 is hanging during make test on Mac OS 10.5.1 / Intel. The test log and pictures of the process probe are here: http://hexten.net/junk/20071230-193600/ I also have a few test failures on Ubunt

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2007-12-30 Thread Christian Mueller
>> Thanks for the reply - can you please what is the problem with having it in the beginning of the line? > > Short answer: the compiler has no way of knowing whether the > programmer wants an embedded comment or a line comment; so instead of guessing, it requires the programmer to disambiguate. >

[perl #49226] 'make pbc_to_c' fails on Intel Mac

2007-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Please include the string: [perl #49226] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49226 > This may be a duplicate bug report. Attempting to use ./parrotbug results in the

Another deadlock on Mac OS 10.5.1

2007-12-30 Thread Andy Armstrong
Sorry if I've missed something recent that means that this is expected behaviour but r24318 is hanging during make test on Mac OS 10.5.1 / Intel. The test log and pictures of the process probe are here: http://hexten.net/junk/20071230-193600/ -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: [perl #49228] [BUG] 'make pbc_to_c' fails on Darwin

2007-12-30 Thread Ovid
--- chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is -o -o in the two lines of the pbc_to_exe rule in the > Makefile, > and I suspect that that's because you're linking against libparrot.a > not > libparrot.so. (Parrot::Embed failed for Tim Bunce for similar > reasons.) > > I don't know t

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2007-12-30 Thread Jonathan Lang
Offer Kaye wrote: > #( commenting out a large code section, yey for Perl6 multi-line comments... >if ($foo) { > print "...or not :(\n" >} > ) # this should have been the end of the embedded comment ...and since it wasn't, you probably should have chosen other brackets such as: #[

Re: [perl #49222] t/library/mime_base64.t failing

2007-12-30 Thread Alberto Simões
Erm, Realclean, and worked *shame* chromatic via RT wrote: On Sunday 30 December 2007 09:31:55 James Keenan via RT wrote: Could this be related to a TAP::Parser problem? That seems unlikely to me; the assertion comes from the internals of Parrot. More likely some sort of memory corruption.

Re: [perl #49222] t/library/mime_base64.t failing

2007-12-30 Thread Alberto Simões
chromatic via RT wrote: On Sunday 30 December 2007 10:02:53 Bob Rogers wrote: I don't think so; it's not emitting any debugging output at all. Inserting a strategically-placed PDB_backtrace call shows that this fails in line 27 of t/library/mime_base64.t, which is: load_bytecode 'compi

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2007-12-30 Thread Mark J. Reed
Whitespace is significant in many places. Even in some of the corners of Perl 5. Perl 6 has a different set of rules, and it will take some getting used to, but the rules are designed to let you do things as naturally as possible.This, for instance, works fine: my @values = # (1,2,3) # old

Re: [perl #49222] t/library/mime_base64.t failing

2007-12-30 Thread chromatic
On Sunday 30 December 2007 10:02:53 Bob Rogers wrote: > I don't think so; it's not emitting any debugging output at all. > Inserting a strategically-placed PDB_backtrace call shows that this > fails in line 27 of t/library/mime_base64.t, which is: > > load_bytecode 'compilers/json/JSON.pbc'

[perl #49224] [BUG] Repeated problems with 'svn commit'

2007-12-30 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Sun Dec 30 10:01:18 2007, rgrjr wrote: > > Come to think of it, I did three commits each on Monday and Tuesday, and > must have seen it then (either or both days). > > -- Bob > Perhaps not; the problem is intermittent. But yesterday I was getting it o

Re: [perl #49228] [BUG] 'make pbc_to_c' fails on Darwin

2007-12-30 Thread chromatic
On Sunday 30 December 2007 08:15:26 James Keenan wrote: > Doing a fresh checkout from trunk at r24302, I was able to get perl6 > up and running on Linux following chromatic's instructions on > use.perl.org (with one correction). > > However, I was not so succesful on ppc-darwin. Here's the data:

Re: [perl #49222] t/library/mime_base64.t failing

2007-12-30 Thread chromatic
On Sunday 30 December 2007 09:31:55 James Keenan via RT wrote: > Could this be related to a TAP::Parser problem? That seems unlikely to me; the assertion comes from the internals of Parrot. More likely some sort of memory corruption. Can someone seeing this do a binary search to see which revi

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2007-12-30 Thread Offer Kaye
On Dec 30, 2007 6:10 PM, Jonathan Lang wrote: > > Short answer: the compiler has no way of knowing whether the > programmer wants an embedded comment or a line comment; so instead of > guessing, it requires the programmer to disambiguate. > [...snip...] > > # if ($test) > # { > .say; >

[perl #49222] t/library/mime_base64.t failing

2007-12-30 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "James Keenan via RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:31:55 -0800 Could this be related to a TAP::Parser problem? I don't think so; it's not emitting any debugging output at all. Inserting a strategically-placed PDB_backtrace call shows that this fails in line 27 of t

Re: [perl #49222] t/library/mime_base64.t failing

2007-12-30 Thread Alberto Simões
James Keenan via RT wrote: > Could this be related to a TAP::Parser problem? TAP::Parser 3.05, Updated to Parrot revision 24317. Same problem. Some hints on how can I debug it? -- Alberto Simões - Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057

[perl #49224] [BUG] Repeated problems with 'svn commit'

2007-12-30 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "James Keenan via RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:13:24 -0800 No, I first began to notice this two weeks ago. And the most frequent occurrences were last night, when the maintenance on the server was presumably complete. Come to think of it, I did three com

[perl #49222] t/library/mime_base64.t failing

2007-12-30 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "James Keenan via RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:11:06 -0800 I was unable to reproduce the failure on Mac 10.4.11 with Perl 5.10. [fresh] 593 $ prove t/library/mime_base64.t t/library/mime_base64ok All tes

[perl #49222] t/library/mime_base64.t failing

2007-12-30 Thread James Keenan via RT
Could this be related to a TAP::Parser problem?

Re: [perl #49222] t/library/mime_base64.t failing

2007-12-30 Thread Alberto Simões
James Keenan via RT wrote: Perhaps it is strictly a 10.5 problem??? I'm with Tiger (10.4) Perl Configuration: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ambs]$ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=darwin, osvers=8.11.0, archname=darwin-2level uname='

[perl #49224] [BUG] Repeated problems with 'svn commit'

2007-12-30 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Sun Dec 30 09:04:25 2007, rgrjr wrote: > > Was that when the server was down a few days ago? Over the past few > days, I have seen several examples of the "MERGE request failed ... 200 > OK" syndrome (which is particularly wierd) with Subversion client > version 1.3.0. But I wouldn't swear t

[perl #49222] t/library/mime_base64.t failing

2007-12-30 Thread James Keenan via RT
I was unable to reproduce the failure on Mac 10.4.11 with Perl 5.10. [fresh] 593 $ prove t/library/mime_base64.t t/library/mime_base64ok All tests successful. Files=1, Tests=550, 9 wallclock secs ( 7.74 cusr + 0.52 csys = 8.26 CPU) Perhaps

[perl #49224] [BUG] Repeated problems with 'svn commit'

2007-12-30 Thread Bob Rogers
From: James Keenan (via RT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:35:08 -0800 # New Ticket Created by James Keenan # Please include the string: [perl #49224] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.h

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2007-12-30 Thread Jonathan Lang
Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > On 30/12/2007, Jonathan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only wart > > is that '#( ... )' cannot begin at the very start of a line; but it's > > easy enough to get around that restriction - say, with some leading > > whitespace. > > Thanks for the reply - can you ple

[perl #49222] t/library/mime_base64.t failing

2007-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Alberto Simoes # Please include the string: [perl #49222] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49222 > Mac OS Tiger on PPC G4 Perl 5.10 Parrot Revision: 24263 [EMAIL PROTECTED] parrot]$ pr

[perl #49224] [BUG] Repeated problems with 'svn commit'

2007-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by James Keenan # Please include the string: [perl #49224] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49224 > I am filing this ticket as a way of keeping track of some problems with our infrastruc

[svn:parrot-pdd] r24300 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2007-12-30 Thread kjs
Author: kjs Date: Sun Dec 30 05:41:24 2007 New Revision: 24300 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd19_pir.pod Log: [pdd19] remove .emit and .eom from pdd19; the tokens are no longer allowed by imcc. the parser-generated symbol EMIT is still there, as it is used to force the parser in PASM mod

Re: "make pbc_to_c" fails

2007-12-30 Thread James E Keenan
On Dec 30, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Ovid wrote: --- James E Keenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi James, Although it is not required for running chromatic's process, you might wish to begin with: perl Configure.pl --test ... to see that the configuration and build tools all work properly befo

Re: "make pbc_to_c" fails

2007-12-30 Thread Ovid
--- James E Keenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi James, > Although it is not required for running chromatic's process, you > might wish to begin with: > > perl Configure.pl --test > > ... to see that the configuration and build tools all work properly > before you say 'make'. Thanks for t

Re: "make pbc_to_c" fails

2007-12-30 Thread James E Keenan
Ovid wrote: I'm having trouble with the initial Configure.pl and with the pbc_to_c target on my Intel Macbook. I have rough notes below about the steps I've taken. If anyone needs more information, just ask and I'd be happy to send anything I can. Following the instructions in chromatic's post

[svn:parrot-pdd] r24301 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2007-12-30 Thread kjs
Author: kjs Date: Sun Dec 30 05:44:09 2007 New Revision: 24301 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd19_pir.pod Log: [pdd19] add reference to pdd27 for the :multi flag. Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd19_pir.pod == --

[svn:parrot-pdd] r24299 - trunk/docs/pdds

2007-12-30 Thread kjs
Author: kjs Date: Sun Dec 30 05:35:58 2007 New Revision: 24299 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd27_multiple_dispatch.pod Log: [pdd27] add note about :invocant parameters must be contiguous. No explanation yet. Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd27_multiple_dispatch.pod ===

Re: Perl6::Doc # Hail to the new pharao

2007-12-30 Thread herbert breunung
first of all thanks to Jonathan Scott Duff, you will be named in the scribes section of the p6doc documentation too and to chromatic: i will name the authors normally like in POD and make a link to perl.com/p6 section in the p6doc where sources of all docs are named. Conrad Schneiker: about o

Re: "make pbc_to_c" fails

2007-12-30 Thread Ovid
--- Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On a related note, I received this error message: > Ack, some files were missing! I can't continue running > without everything here. Please try to find the above > files and then try running Configure again. Configure.pl kept running yet the message im

Re: "make pbc_to_c" fails

2007-12-30 Thread Allison Randal
Ovid wrote: I got this error on the latest version from svn: parrot $ perl Configure.pl Base class package "Parrot::Configure::Compiler" is empty. (Perhaps you need to 'use' the module which defines that package first.) at lib/Parrot/Configure.pm line 44 I have the same problem,

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2007-12-30 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
On 30/12/2007, Jonathan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only wart > is that '#( ... )' cannot begin at the very start of a line; but it's > easy enough to get around that restriction - say, with some leading > whitespace. Thanks for the reply - can you please what is the problem with having

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2007-12-30 Thread Jonathan Lang
Christian Mueller wrote: > i don't know the actually state in the discussion about multiline > comments, but i would propose an idea.. a combination of POD's = and the > traditional route char... Perl 6 already has a robust system for multiline and embedded comments, as described in S02 under "Whi

"make pbc_to_c" fails

2007-12-30 Thread Ovid
I'm having trouble with the initial Configure.pl and with the pbc_to_c target on my Intel Macbook. I have rough notes below about the steps I've taken. If anyone needs more information, just ask and I'd be happy to send anything I can. Following the instructions in chromatic's post at use.perl a

RE: Perl6::Doc # Hail to the new pharao

2007-12-30 Thread Conrad Schneiker
Re using perl.com articles in your Perl 6 wiki documentation, were you also planning on adding (links to) Larry Wall's annual "State of the Onion" talks? They contain a wealth of great language design philosophy for people wanting to learn about what sorts of things motivated the exceedingly intere