On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, chromatic via RT wrote:
> On Mon Oct 06 12:15:49 2008, doughera wrote:
>
> > Trying to compile today's parrot on an up-to-date version
> > of OpenSolaris:
> >
> > SunOS xxx 5.11 snv_98 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
> >
> > it failed (after a while) with the following error:
> >
> > perl tools/build/pmc2c.pl --vtable
> > Storable version 2.13 required--this is only version 2.12 at
> > The problem is that OpenSolaris ships with (a patched version of)
> > perl-5.8.4. I'm not sure why OpenSolaris is still shipping perl-
> > 5.8.4, but they are.
> >
> > I haven't looked at tools/build/pmc2c.pl at all to see why Storable
> > 2.13 is required, nor at how large of a burden it would be to relax
> > that requirement. Such digging would take more time than I have
> > available at the moment.
>
> If I remember correctly, Storable 2.12 and earlier did not restore
> overloading properly. Storable's changelog suggests that version 2.18
> compiles properly on older versions of Perl; if it works with Perl 5.8.4
> in OpenSolaris, we could keep the dependency on 5.8.1 (or whatever) and
> increase the Storable dependency to 2.18.
Storable 2.18 builds and tests fine on OpenSolaris. (So do perl-5.8.8 and
perl-5.8.9-to-be.)
On the other hand, changing the requirement in
lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/Pmc2cMain.pm to Storable 2.12 instead of 2.13, and then
building with Storable 2.12, also seems to work. That is, there are no
significant differences between the generated files.
--
Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
