[Pkg-parrot-devel] Bug#592277: parrot: Rakudo Perl6's Configure.PL needs SVN revision

[Hilko Bengen]

Package: parrot
Version: 2.6.0-1
Severity: normal

Calling the Configure.pl script for Rakudo with parrot 2.6.0 installed
gives me this error message:

,----
| $ perl Configure.pl
| 
| Reading configuration information from parrot_config ...
| ===SORRY!===
| Parrot revision r48225 required (currently r0)
| 
| To automatically checkout (svn) and build a copy of parrot r48225,
| try re-running Configure.pl with the '--gen-parrot' option.
| Or, use the '--parrot-config' option to explicitly specify
| the location of parrot_config to be used to build Rakudo Perl.
`----

For Rakudo, I used a fresh checkout from the git repository, not the
"Star" (2010.07) release.

It seems that the revision that goes into the output generated by
"parrot_config --dump" is detected at build time from svn or git-svn
output. This happens in Parrot::Revision which is called from the
auto::revision config module.

Since the Parrot Debian package is not built from a SVN checkout, there
is no revision entry. However, since releases are going to be identical
to the checkout of a particular revision it would IMO be a good idea to
provide this information to the Parrot configuration script by some
other means.

Cheers,
-Hilko

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