At 01:25 PM 1/7/2002 +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote:
>Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > IANDan, but here's the plan as I see it.
> >
> > 1) Move to using make.pl instead of system's make
> > 2) Compile both make.pl and Configure.pl to Parrot bytecode
> > 3) Create a miniparrot which builds anywhere and can run the above
> > programs and bootstrap itself to real parrot.
>
>This will be nice if we can do it. I do rather wonder how we're going
>to achieve (3) though. In order for miniparrot to run make.pl it needs to
>have fairly good I/O, file test, and system() capabilities, all of
>which seem wildly system dependent. Do we use a glorified hints file to
>build miniperl or wot ?
Yep, we do use a glorified hint file. With potentially some system or
generic OS specific thing to fire it all off.
We don't, strictly speaking, need any dependency checking at all to build
from a clean archive. What gets built and in what order's essentially fixed
on all systems.
Dan
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