https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues/3693
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 5:11 PM Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Working with p.spek p.s...@tyil.nl on a revised Rakudo Star we > encountered a problem with the Configure step; it might be worthwhile > contacting him to coordinate any changes. > > On 5/14/20, Will Coleda <w...@coleda.com> wrote: > > I think it's out of date, yes.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 be the INSTALL.txt file is out-of-date?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 > >
