Update parrot from version 1.7.0 to 1.8.0.

Update OK'ed by agc@

Pkgsrc changes:
 o Replace perl and parrot interpreter references where we can
   (one perl module not available at pre-configure time not done)
 o Remove patches which are no longer necessary, since they either
   came from upstream or have been adopted there
 o Update the PLIST to sync with what's being installed

Upstream changes:

- Functionality
  + The FileHandle PMC now exposes the exit code of child process
    that was run as pipe.
  + Experimental support for overriding VTABLE invoke in PIR objects
    was added.
  + The method 'type' was added to the PackfileAnnotations PMC.
  + The internals of the parrot calling conventions, PCC, were
    reworked.  All call paths now use a CallSignature object for
    passing arguments and return values.
  + The new API-function 'Parrot_ext_call' was added for calling
    into C-land.
  + The fixed-size allocator was improved.
  + The files installed by 'make install-dev' are now covered by
    'make install' as well.
  + The experimental ops 'fetch' and 'vivify' were added.
  + The -I option to the command 'parrot' now prepends items to
    the search path.
  + The Context struct was substituted with auto attributes
    (context_auto_attrs branch).
  + Use the osname determined in auto::arch in subsequent configuration
    steps (convert_OSNAME branch).
  + Eliminated dependence on Perl 5 '%Config' in auto::format
    (auto_format_no_Config branch).
  + MultiSub PMCs now stringify to the name of their first candidate,
    instead of the number of candidates.
  + The platform detection at the start of the configuration process
    was improved.
  + The 'lineof' method on CodeString objects now precomputes line
    number information to be more efficient on variable-width
    encoded strings.
  + P6object now supports .WHO and .WHERE methods on protoobjects.
- Compilers
  + A shiny new self-hosting implementation of NQP has been added
    in ext/nqp-rx.
    - New NQP available as nqp-rx.pbc or parrot-nqp fakecutable.
    - NQP includes direct support for grammars and regexes, including
      protoregexes.
    - NQP has a new PAST-based regex engine (intended to replace PGE).
    - Regexes may contain code assertions, parameters, lexical
      declarations, and more.
    - Double-quoted strings now interpolate scalar variables and closures.
    - Subroutine declarations are now lexical by default.
  + PCT
    - PAST::Block now supports an 'nsentry' attribute.
    - PAST::Var allows 'contextual' scope.
    - Attribute bindings now return the bound value.
- Platforms
  + Fixes for the port of Parrot to RTEMS were applied. Yay, first
    port to a real time OS!
  + On NetBSD, shared libs are now used.
- Performance
  + Use the the fixed-sized allocator in the Context and the
    CallSignature PMC.
  + Many small speed improvements.
- New deprecations
  + MT19937, the Mersenne twisted pseudorandom number generator,
    is now hosted on github and will be removed from the Parrot
    core. (eligible in 2.1)
  + The 'Parrot_call_*' functions for invoking a sub/method object from C are
    deprecated. They are replaced by 'Parrot_ext_call'. (eligible in 2.1)
  + All bitwise VTABLE functions are deprecated. (eligible in 2.1)
  + All bitwise ops will become dynops. (eligible in 2.1)
- Realized deprecations
  + The slice VTABLE entry was removed.
  + The last traces of the 'malloc' garbage collector were removed.
  + Parrot_pcc_constants() was renamed to Parrot_pcc_get_constants().
  + The deprecated functions from the Embedding/Extension interface
    were removed.
  + The library YAML/Parser/Syck.pir was removed.
  + The VTABLE function instantiate_str() was removed.
  + Building of parrot_nqp was removed.
- Tests
  + The test coverage of the time-related ops was much improved.
  + New testing functions in Test::More: lives_ok() and dies_ok().
  + The Perl 5 based test scripts t/op/bitwist.t, t/op/comp.t,
    t/op/inf_nan.t, t/op/literal.t, t/op/number.t, t/op/sprintf2.t,
    and t/op/00ff-dos.t were converted to PIR.
  + The test scripts t/op/annotate.t and t/op/time.t have begun
    to be translated from Perl 5 to PIR.
  + In some tests the dependency on %Config from Perl 5 was eliminated.
- Documentation
  + The meaning of 'p' means in NCI function call signatures was clarified.
- Tools
  + The stub for a new language, as created by mk_language_shell.pl,
    now relies on the PIR-based tools, which are replacing the Perl
    5-based tools.
  + The library Configure.pir was added.
  + The library distutils.pir was added.
- Miscellaneous
  + The mailing list parrot-users and a corresponding google group was created,
    http://groups.google.com/group/parrot-users.
  + Many bugfixes, code cleanups, and coding standard fixes.

4 files changed, 0 insertions, 127 deletions

diff --git a/lang/parrot/patches/patch-af b/lang/parrot/patches/patch-af
deleted file mode 100644
index 86b0d77df2e..00000000000
--- a/lang/parrot/patches/patch-af
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-$NetBSD: patch-af,v 1.3 2009/10/21 14:23:13 he Exp $
-
-Enable shared libraries on NetBSD.
-
---- config/init/hints/netbsd.pm	(revision 41959)
-+++ config/init/hints/netbsd.pm	(working copy)
-@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
- sub runstep {
-     my ( $self, $conf ) = @_;
- 
-+    my $share_ext = $conf->option_or_data('share_ext');
-+    my $version   = $conf->option_or_data('VERSION');
-+
-     my $ccflags = $conf->data->get('ccflags');
-     if ( $ccflags !~ /-pthread\b/ ) {
-         $ccflags .= ' -pthread';
-@@ -19,7 +22,16 @@
-     if ( $libs !~ /-lpthread\b/ ) {
-         $libs .= ' -lpthread';
-     }
--    $conf->data->set( libs => $libs );
-+    $conf->data->set(
-+	libs => $libs,
-+	rpath => '-Wl,-R',
-+
-+	has_dynamic_linking    => 1,
-+	parrot_is_shared       => 1,
-+	libparrot_shared       => "libparrot$share_ext.$version",
-+	libparrot_shared_alias => "libparrot$share_ext",
-+	libparrot_soname       => "-Wl,-soname=libparrot$share_ext.$version",
-+    );
- }
- 
- 1;
diff --git a/lang/parrot/patches/patch-ag b/lang/parrot/patches/patch-ag
deleted file mode 100644
index 17cfed25cfc..00000000000
--- a/lang/parrot/patches/patch-ag
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-$NetBSD: patch-ag,v 1.3 2009/10/21 14:23:13 he Exp $
-
-This test now works in NetBSD, after we properly selected the libm
-variant in the platform startup code.
-
---- t/op/trans.t	(revision 41959)
-+++ t/op/trans.t	(working copy)
-@@ -387,9 +387,6 @@
- ok 16
- OUTPUT
- 
--TODO: {
--local $TODO = 'fails on netbsd' if $^O =~ /netbsd/;
--
- pasm_output_is( <<"CODE", <<'OUTPUT', 'atan, part 2' );
-         .include 'fp_equality.pasm'
-         atan N4, -0.0, -0.0
-@@ -402,8 +399,6 @@
- ok 1
- OUTPUT
- 
--}
--
- pasm_output_is( <<"CODE", <<OUTPUT, "log2" );
-         .include 'fp_equality.pasm'
-         set N1, 10.0
diff --git a/lang/parrot/patches/patch-ai b/lang/parrot/patches/patch-ai
deleted file mode 100644
index e6cbbe115ce..00000000000
--- a/lang/parrot/patches/patch-ai
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-$NetBSD: patch-ai,v 1.2 2009/12/09 09:23:51 he Exp $
-
-Mirror a change committed just after the release: the open_pipe_for_writing
-test should work everywhere.
-
---- t/op/io.t.orig	2009-10-20 23:30:03.000000000 +0200
-+++ t/op/io.t
-@@ -51,22 +51,6 @@ Tests various io opcodes.
-     ok(1, 'open with null mode')
- .end
- 
--.sub 'tt661_todo_test' :anon
--    # Checks whether the platform is linux, MSWin32, darwin: on other
--    # platforms, the following tests are todo'ed.
--    .include 'sysinfo.pasm'
--    $S0 = sysinfo .SYSINFO_PARROT_OS
--    if $S0 == 'linux' goto tt661_ok
--#    if $S0 == 'MSWin32' goto tt661_ok
--    if $S0 == 'darwin' goto tt661_ok
--    if $S0 == 'openbsd' goto tt661_ok
--
--    .return (0)
--
--  tt661_ok:
--    .return (1)
--.end
--
- .include 'iglobals.pasm'
- 
- .sub 'open_pipe_for_reading'
-@@ -103,8 +87,6 @@ Tests various io opcodes.
- .end
- 
- .sub 'open_pipe_for_writing'
--    $I0 = tt661_todo_test()
--    unless $I0 goto open_pipe_for_writing_todoed
-     .local pmc interp
-     interp = getinterp
- 
-@@ -137,10 +119,6 @@ Tests various io opcodes.
-   open_pipe_for_writing_failed:
-     nok(1, 'open pipe for writing')
-     .return ()
--
--  open_pipe_for_writing_todoed:
--    todo(1, 'Unimplemented in this platform, TT #661')
--
- .end
- 
- # Local Variables:
diff --git a/lang/parrot/patches/patch-aj b/lang/parrot/patches/patch-aj
deleted file mode 100644
index ad6b581fb7d..00000000000
--- a/lang/parrot/patches/patch-aj
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-$NetBSD: patch-aj,v 1.1 2009/10/21 14:23:13 he Exp $
-
-Make sure to use rpath if it's defined when linking C-language tests.
-
---- lib/Parrot/Test.pm.orig	2009-10-20 03:09:41.000000000 +0200
-+++ lib/Parrot/Test.pm
-@@ -1045,6 +1045,10 @@ sub _generate_test_functions {
-                     . "$PConfig{ld_out}$exe_f "
-                     . "$obj_f $cfg "
-                     . "$PConfig{libparrot_linkflags} "
-+		    # If rpath is defined (and therefore rpath_blib), use it to get at the build libraries
-+		    . ( defined($PConfig{rpath_blib})
-+			? (  $PConfig{rpath_blib} . " " )
-+			: "" )
-                     . "$PConfig{linkflags} $PConfig{ld_debug} "
-                     . "$iculibs $PConfig{libs}";
-                 my $exit_code = run_command(