[Pkg-parrot-devel] Bug#531381: Bug#531381: parrot: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD (hint file needed)

[Allison Randal]

Petr Salinger wrote:
> 
>> It would help if you could provide more details on the failure to build.
>> The best is if you can provide a full dump of the build process output.
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=parrot&arch=kfreebsd-amd64&ver=1.0.0-1&stamp=1243831790&file=log&as=raw 

Oh, it builds from source just fine. It's failing on the package 
install, because the Debian packages expect to find a shared library 
libparrot.so.1.0.0. But, Parrot built as static because it doesn't have 
a hints file for that platform to tell it that building a shared parrot 
library is safe.

> They (Linux and GNU/kFreeBSD) are not the same,
> but the current content of hint file could be same.
>
> They both use the same gcc, same binutils, same glibc.
> The only kernel is totally different.
> 
> May be it would be better to name the hint file "glibc.pm"
> and share it between linux, GNU/kFreeBSD and hurd.

Okay, for now they'll both use the "linux" hints file, but if you ever 
need different configuration parameters than linux, let us know and we 
can create a separate hints file.

Could you send me a copy of the file lib/Parrot/Config/Generated.pm in 
the parrot build directory? I particularly need to know the values of 
the "archname", "osname", and "cpuarch" configuration variables, as I'll 
use those to tell parrot "use the linux hints file for this architecture".

Allison