Hi, I have just done a new installation of Kubuntu Intrepid i386 on my system as my previous one was a little broken.
I set up most of the stuff I thought I needed and used cpanp to update and get the required perl 5.10 modules. I got parrot from the subversion repository and ran perl Configure.pl --test --optimize which seemed fine, I then ran make world make smoke. the result of this was: http://smolder.plusthree.com/app/public_projects/report_details/17245 I noticed the following though in the output: t/pmc/bigint................................skipped: No BigInt Lib configured and t/dynpmc/gdbmhash...........................skipped: No gdbm library available I realised that I had installed the libraries but not the necessary .dev files for these I installed the .dev files and did a make realclean and reran http://smolder.plusthree.com/app/public_projects/report_details/17250 this gives 11767 tests with 606 skipped and 239 TODO as opposed to 11680 tests with 609 skipped and 239 TODO so effectively 3 skipped tests being run giving an additional 87 tests. My main point is that I could find nothing in the documentation showing which libraries and perl modules are requirements and nice to haves etc. I am still not sure if there are libraries and/or programs that I don't have that would be useful for me as I continue to get involved with parrot development. For example it took a little google/cpan searching to find Pod::PseudoPod for the docs/book stuff. Thank you, Michael (mikehh) ps. I noticed that a lot of the tests submitted to smolder do not seem to have these libraries (.dev) files -- Michael H. Hind Tel: +44 (0) 1224 596 139 Cell: +44 (0) 7877 224 745
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