Build i686?

[Steve Peters]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:27 AM, pgmer6809 <pgmer6809 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi, been following parrot for awhile, since OSCON 2005 in fact.
> Finally might have some cycles to contribute; maybe docs, maybe tests.
>
> Getting feet wet, got parrot via svn. did Configure and make and make
> test.
> running parrot shows that it was built for i386.
>
> FYI I am running Ubuntu 7.1 (Gutsy) 32bit version on an Athlone64
> chip.
> Here is the output of the tests if you are interested.
>
> ll tests successful, 10 tests and 667 subtests skipped.
> Files=391, Tests=11720, 186 wallclock secs (118.41 cusr + 25.00 csys =
> 143.41 CPU)
>
> greg at shadow:~/parrot$ gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)
>
> greg at shadow:~/parrot$ ./parrot --version
> This is Parrot version 0.9.0-devel built for i386-linux.
>
>
> A scan of the myconfig file shows that all of the 'arch' symbols are
> in fact defined as 386.
> Is there a way I can build parrot for i686 architecture?
> my uname -m shows i686, and I have libc6-i686 installed.
>

i386 is kind of a misnomer.  It's a generic build for an Intel-based
chip on Linux.  x86 might be more appropriate, but I believe this is a
carryover from Perl 5.

Steve Peters
steve at fisharerojo.org