On 06/02/2012 08:07 PM, James E Keenan wrote: > When I configure with a prefix, build and install, 95 '.dump' files are > installed (see > https://github.com/parrot/parrot/issues/512#issuecomment-5958144). Why? > > Those '.dump' files are Perl Storable files -- a file format not > readable by Parrot. If they're not readable, they would seem to be of > no subsquent use to the installed Parrot.
They're required for building PMCs that inherit from Parrot core PMCs. They were only supposed to be installed with make install-dev, but then someone changed the default install to pull in install-dev. We don't install all the .dump files, only the ones that certain languages needed to build. They aren't needed at all for running Parrot, only for building a language. One possible solution is to stop using .dump files in the PMC build process. It's one of the ugliest parts of the build process. Allison _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
