Cross-compiling Parrot

[Jacques Mony]

Hello,

I'm trying to port parrot to the unununium operating system, which uses a
modified version of 'diet lib c'. Can anyone tell me if this is actually
possible to force the use of this library using the current Configure.pl
script or if I will need to change it a lot... or even replace it with my
own?

Thanks,

Jacques Mony
Unununium OS

[Dan Sugalski]

There's a pretty good bet you're going to have to alter the configure
script quite a bit, but it shouldn't require a full rewrite. Teaching
it to read from a pre-done configuration data file would be a good
place to start, which'd let us feed in the cross-compilation
settings. (And we could then leverage for the upgrade settings too)
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[Steve Fink]

On Oct-17, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 9:49 AM -0400 10/17/04, Jacques Mony wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I'm trying to port parrot to the unununium operating system, which
> >uses a modified version of 'diet lib c'. Can anyone tell me if this
> >is actually possible to force the use of this library using the
> >current Configure.pl script or if I will need to change it a lot...
> >or even replace it with my own?
>
> There's a pretty good bet you're going to have to alter the configure
> script quite a bit, but it shouldn't require a full rewrite. Teaching
> it to read from a pre-done configuration data file would be a good
> place to start, which'd let us feed in the cross-compilation
> settings. (And we could then leverage for the upgrade settings too)

It's not exactly that, but you can set pretty much anything you want in
a config/init/hints/local.pl file.