On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 09:21:12PM -0800, Brent Dax wrote: > # Remember, I am not a C programmer. I just took my perl 5.6.1 that's > # compiled with 64 bit ints and ran Configure.pl with it. > > Okay. When Configure asks: > > How big would you like integers to be? [long long] > > just type 'long' (without quotes) and hit enter. You won't get 64-bit > support, but you will get a building Parrot, which is usually a good > thing. ;^)
Well, the point isn't that Parrot builds. The point is that Configure should DWIM when I throw it Interesting (in the Chinese sense) perl configurations. Currently it doesn't. If Parrot is busted wrt 64 bit ints on 32 bit platforms, could Configure just throw a warning? -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One <rocking chair>In the old days (say, Amiga :-) we had only kilobytes of stack. And the road to school was surrounded by hungry wolves. And it was steep uphill. Both ways.</rocking chair> -- Jarkko Hietaniemi in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
