2009/3/22 Will Coleda via RT <parrotbug-follo...@parrotcode.org>: > On Wed May 02 12:51:17 2007, yasa...@gmail.com wrote: >> This has a lot to do with tickets #42558 and #34994: >> (there's quite a bit to read in both) >> >> http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=42558 >> http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=34994 >> >> To get to config.fpmc (which is in runtime/parrot/include/), config.pir gets >> Parrot's runtime prefix via interpinfo .INTERPINFO_RUNTIME_PREFIX (this is >> part of patch #42558) and then adds "/runtime/parrot/include/config.fpmc" >> onto it. >> >> This works for an uninstalled Parrot, as the runtime prefix returned is the >> Parrot root directory, where runtime/ lives. >> >> On my machine, an installed Parrot returns "/usr/local" for the runtime >> prefix, while the installed config.fpmc lives in >> /usr/local/lib/parrot/include/ . So config.pir tries to look at >> /usr/local/runtime/parrot/include and fails. >> >> >> That was the bug report, my conclusions from here onwards :) >> >> If the "runtime" directory gets installed to "/usr/local/lib", (or whatever) >> then I think that for an installed Parrot that should be the runtime prefix. >> I'm guessing there's some reason that /usr/local is returned here instead. >> >> As far as I can tell, the only place that the runtime prefix is used in the >> Parrot code is Parrot_locate_runtime_file_str (in library.c) where it's used >> to prefix the library paths from parrot_init_library_paths (same file). That >> function returns both options - both runtime/ and lib/, so it works in both >> situations, but it seems to me it would be better to figure it out according >> to the real location of the runtime. >> >> Also, the runtime prefix is stored in the interpreter's IGLOBALS_CONFIG_HASH >> under the key "prefix". I think it would probably be better to rename that >> to "runtime_prefix". > > I'm hoping this issue was fixed before 1.0; Can someone verify? >
Fixed by https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/changeset/37091 & https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/changeset/37094 François. > -- > Will "Coke" Coleda > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev > >
