building Parrot on ppc-linux

[Gerd Pokorra]

The hint from James E Keenan was good. With reducing the configuration
options it works directly. In the meentime I was successful building
parrot on ppc-linux und ppc64-linux.

Gerd Pokorra

Am Donnerstag, den 05.03.2009, 12:36 +0100 schrieb Reini Urban:
> >> auto::alignptrs -     Determine your minimum pointer alignment...
> >> step auto::alignptrs died during execution: C compiler failed (see
> >> test_15591.cco) at lib/Parrot/Configure/Compiler.pm line 104
> 
> auto::alignptrs has to be skipped for ppc/linux or the ptr_alignment
> value has to be added to $conf->data in the hints file.
> This test crashes on other stricter platforms (hpux 64bit) also.
> 
> My guess is 4.