Re: [perl #38124] [TODO] build - header file detection w/o perl5

2009-02-07 Thread Will Coleda
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 06:44:47PM -0800, James Keenan via RT wrote: >> On Sun Jan 01 19:09:51 2006, jhobl...@ifa.hawaii.edu wrote: >> > auto::headers uses the Config module to detect installed header files. >> > It's ok to get default values

Re: [perl #37933] [TODO] build - tracing cleanup

2009-02-07 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 06:37:41PM -0800, James Keenan via RT wrote: > On Wed Dec 14 02:04:12 2005, jhobl...@ifa.hawaii.edu wrote: > > - The debugging traces could be neater > > > > Are you talking about the Parrot debugger? gdb backtraces? The w/ glibc stack backtracing that I implimented a co

Re: [perl #38124] [TODO] build - header file detection w/o perl5

2009-02-07 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 06:44:47PM -0800, James Keenan via RT wrote: > On Sun Jan 01 19:09:51 2006, jhobl...@ifa.hawaii.edu wrote: > > auto::headers uses the Config module to detect installed header files. > > It's ok to get default values and the arch name from Config but it's not > > OK to depend

Re: [perl #37934] [TODO] build - log file

2009-02-07 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 06:35:05PM -0800, James Keenan via RT wrote: > On Fri Jan 11 13:17:38 2008, jhobl...@ifa.hawaii.edu wrote: > > A log would be useful if it contained sufficient information to figure > > out why a test passed or failed. Similar to autoconf's config.log (an > > invaluable deb