Howdy John, Try running that script from a Subversion checkout of the Parrot source. That script assumes it is being run from a dev checkout, so when you run it from a release tarball or when it is installed, it gets confused. This needs to be fixed.
Hope that helps, Duke On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Jay Emerson <[email protected]> wrote: > I followed the directions in ch03_compiler_tools.pod.html (noting the > change from tools/build to tools/dev). I can do the following (test > language ParR into directory parr): > > j...@jay-beast:/usr/local/lib/parrot/2.3.0/languages/parr$ more README > Language 'ParR' was created with ../tools/dev/mk_language_shell.pl, r44549. > > $ parrot setup.pir > $ parrot setup.pir test > > j...@jay-beast:/usr/local/lib/parrot/2.3.0/languages/parr$ parrot setup.pir > Parrot revision r44549 required (currently r0) > j...@jay-beast:/usr/local/lib/parrot/2.3.0/languages/parr$ parrot setup.pir > test > Parrot revision r44549 required (currently r0) > j...@jay-beast:/usr/local/lib/parrot/2.3.0/languages/parr$ ls > parr PARROT_REVISION parr.pir README setup.pir src t test.parr > > Unfortunately, there is no makefile (and others seemed to have hit > this roadblock previously). I tried rerunning configure, make > install-dev, etc... and nothing changed. The closest I can to getting > a hint was in the parrotblog, > http://www.parrotblog.org/2008/03/targeting-parrot-vm.html, but even > those guesses seemed dated. > > Could someone point me to any doc I may have missed? I must say, the > message about revisions, above, seems suspicious, and looking at > setup.pir I would hazard a guess that something needed wasn't > installed correctly, because surely the commands > > .local pmc config > config = get_config() > $I0 = config['revision'] > > are returning 0 when something greater than 44539 was expected? > Thanks in advance, and apologies if I missed some step in the > configure/install. I'm happy to offer advice on the documentation, if > some clarification would help. > > Jay > > > > -- > John W. Emerson (Jay) > Associate Professor of Statistics > Department of Statistics > Yale University > http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jay > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev > -- Jonathan "Duke" Leto [email protected] http://leto.net _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
