Change to README ought to be reverted
James E Keenan
jkeen at verizon.net
Thu Jul 28 23:19:20 UTC 2011
On 7/28/11 9:55 AM, Allison Randal wrote:
>
> We know what platform we're running on during configure, so it should be
> possible to turn on --optimize by default for the platforms we know
> support it, and turn it off by default for the platforms we know don't
> support it.
>
Allison, the problem is not that we're attempting to --optimize on a
platform that doesn't support it. It's that on some platform --optimize
leads to inexplicable test failures.
I would like to suggest that the README read something like this:
"
perl Configure.pl
make
make test
make install
If you are primarily interested in using Parrot rather than developing
it, on most platforms you can safely begin like this:
perl Configure.pl --optimize"
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
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