Personally, I always do:
perl Configure.pl --gen-moar --gen-nqp --make-install
> On 14 May 2020, at 22:08, Joseph Brenner <doom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm having trouble doing a build of raku from github. Could it
> be the INSTALL.txt file is out-of-date?
>
> I was trying to build a "bleeding edge" Raku using the
> instructions here:
>
> https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/master/INSTALL.txt
>
> So I thought I'd just need to do this:
>
> cd /home/doom/End/Sys/Perl6/dev
> git clone git://github.com/rakudo/rakudo.git
> cd rakudo
> git pull
> perl Configure.pl --gen-moar --gen-nqp --backends=moar
> make
>
> pwd
> /home/doom/End/Sys/Perl6/dev/rakudo
>
> ./perl6 --version
>
> But actually, there is no ./perl6 here. And I don't see a
> "Generating" message for it:
>
> [...]
> +++ Generating rakudo-gdb-m
> +++ Generating rakudo-lldb-m
> +++ Generating rakudo-valgrind-m
> +++ Generating perl6-gdb-m
> +++ Generating perl6-lldb-m
> +++ Generating perl6-valgrind-m
>
> Trying something that looks close, I just get this an error:
>
> ./perl6-gdb-m --version
>
> Unhandled exception: While looking for
> '/home/doom/End/Sys/Perl6/dev/rakudo/perl6.moarvm': no such file or
> directory
>
> That file doesn't exist... so despite the --gen-moar option, it
> wasn't created?
>
> sudo updatedb
> locate perl6.moarvm
>
> /home/doom/End/Sys/Perl6/rakudo-star-2019.03/rakudo/perl6.moarvm
> /home/doom/End/Sys/Perl6/rakudo-star-2020.01/rakudo/perl6.moarvm
> /root/rakudo/share/perl6/runtime/perl6.moarvm
>
> The INSTALL.txt describes a --with-moar option, so I thought I
> might try building with an existing moarvm:
>
> cd /home/doom/End/Sys/Perl6/dev/rakudo
> perl Configure.pl
> --with-moar=/home/doom/End/Sys/Perl6/rakudo-star-2020.01/rakudo/perl6.moarvm
> --gen-nqp --backends=moar
> make
>
> But that just errors out:
>
> Unknown option: with-moar
