On Thursday 19 April 2007 11:24, Andy Dougherty wrote:

> But if you actually try it with perl-5.6.2, the build proceeds for a
> while and then dies with
>
>     perl5.6 tools/build/pmc2c.pl --vtable
>     "longmess" is not exported by the Carp module at
> /home/doughera/src/parrot/parrot-andy/tools/build/../../lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/PC
>CMETHOD.pm line 8

> What is the actual intent?  Requiring builders to run at least perl-5.8
> does not seem unreasonable to me, but neither would requiring
> developers to stick with perl-5.6 seem unreasonable.  Parrot should,
> however, be consistent.

It looks like we could replace that longmess call in the WARN handler with 
Carp::cluck() instead without changing the intent.

Does that get you further, Andy?

-- c

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