How to add own PMC to Parrot

Vasily Chekalkin bacek at bacek.com
Tue Aug 4 11:08:10 UTC 2009


Radovan Baranec wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am fighting with this problem few hours. I`ve changed cpointer.pmc and 
> tried to test these changes. In doc stands that I should run realclean 
> and then Configure.pl to add new PMC to the set of built-in PMCs. But 
> these scripts are only in downloaded files they are not in installed 
> files. So what should I do? Should I change cpointer.pmc in downloaded 
> files or in installed files, then run realclean and then Configure.pl 
> from downloaded files or what? I`ve already tried both of it with no 
> success.

Rule of thumb: no one should edit installed files.

So, if you are changing CPointer PMC you have to do it in "downloaded" 
directory.

(It's a good idea to remove installed parrot during development phase. 
Configure.pl even issue a warning about possible conflict)

-- 
Bacek.


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