I think it's out of date, yes. Need a "make install" to install the binaries (by default to ./install). Previous versions of the build left a copy in ./perl6 but that hasn't been the case for a while. Thanks for the ping, we'll open a ticket to get INSTALL.txt updated.
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 4:20 PM Elizabeth Mattijsen <l...@dijkmat.nl> wrote: > > 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 be the INSTALL.txt file is out-of-date?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
