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On 19-Jul-2008 21:42, Reini Urban wrote:
> Michael Schaap schrieb:
>> Is perl6 supposed to (somewhat) work, yet?
>> I get:
>> % perl6 -e 'say "Hello, World!"'
>> "load_bytecode" couldn't find file 'P6object.pbc'
>> current instr.: 'onload' pc 0 (src/gen_builtins.pir:28)
>> called from Sub 'parrot;Perl6::Compiler;main' pc -1 ((unknown file):-1)
>>
>> P6object does exist, in /usr/lib/parrot/library.
>> If I cd to this directory first, I get:
>> % cd /usr/lib/parrot/library; perl6 -e 'say "Hello, World!"'
>> Null PMC access in get_string()
>> current instr.: 'parrot;P6metaclass;add_parent' pc 119 
>> (runtime/parrot/library/P6object.pir:137)
>> called from Sub 'parrot;P6metaclass;add_parent' pc 241 
>> (runtime/parrot/library/P6object.pir:215)
>> called from Sub 'parrot;P6metaclass;register' pc 411 
>> (runtime/parrot/library/P6object.pir:295)
>> called from Sub 'parrot;Str;onload' pc 965 (src/gen_builtins.pir:619)
>> called from Sub 'parrot;Perl6::Compiler;main' pc -1 ((unknown file):-1)
>
> Interesting.
> Cannot reproduce this on both of my machines, with fresh installations.
>
> I'd like to blame Windows Longhorn/Vista (not yet supported!) Ver 6.0 
> Build 6001 Service Pack 1
> The cpu 'x86 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6, GenuineIntel'
> looks fine to me.
It's not Vista.
I just installed Cygwin (base packages plus the three Parrot packages) 
on a Virtual PC image¹, and it behaves identically.

Do you perhaps have any environment variables set that I don't?  I don't 
have any Perl or Parrot variables.

Thanks,

 – Michael

¹: <http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70868>, the first one.

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