ponie's copy of Parrot doesn't build on Windows

A few days ago, a bug was found in one of Parrot's build-time utilities
that was causing multiple copies of the C compiler to start up on
Windows.  (Apparently exec() on Windows has some weird asynchronous
behavior.)  These multiple compilers would then try to open a file, but
only one would succeed, causing most of the compilations to fail.

This was fixed in version 1.4 of tools/dev/cc_flags.pl.  I suggest we
update Ponie's copy of Parrot to include that version.

If it helps, I've pasted a diff below my sig that will do the same
thing.  I don't know if applying it is the right thing to do,
though--there may be some trick with CVS that would be better.

--Brent Dax <[email protected]>
Perl and Parrot hacker
 
"Yeah, and my underwear is flame-retardant--that doesn't mean I'm gonna
set myself on fire to prove it."


--- parrot\tools\dev\cc_flags.pl	(revision 12)
+++ parrot\tools\dev\cc_flags.pl	(working copy)
@@ -67,4 +67,4 @@
 }
 
 print "@ARGV\n";
-exec @ARGV;
+exit system(@ARGV)/256;