On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:32:33PM +0100, Alex Gough wrote: > For what it's worth, I checked a parrot out for the first time in ages > a couple of days ago (the Shub-tuit gives, as the Shub-tuit takes > away...), but got all stuck failing to work out how to get icu not to > be a problem, and so get something built to play with.
while this isn't constructive to the discussion 1: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh I can't even build parrot on AIX because we don't have the IBM C++ compiler Game over there. 2: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh It took the best part of a day, and a custom hacked up perl compile, and some extreme bodging to get parrot to build on Solaris, because the ICU we have defaults to causing the system headers to #error, forced a 64 bit compiler, and something other gotcha that I forget. And given that their default config on AIX puts an IBM compiler specific optimisation flag into the Makefile, I think it will be really uphill making the ICU we have portable, as it appears to be written with defaults per "platform" (ie OS/arch/compiler combination) rather than the perl approach (conservative, figure things out) But I am biased because I bear the mental scars. Nicholas Clark
