I tried to compile pugs r12925 with parrot r14364 (both current as of yesterday) and "make" for pugs failed with this message:
... ... /KNOPPIX/usr/bin/perl util/gen_prelude.pl -v -i src/perl6/Prelude.pm -p ./pugs --output blib6/lib/Prelude.pm.yml Generating precompiled Prelude... ./pugs -C Parse-YAML Prelude.pm > blib6/lib/Prelude.pm.yml *** unexpected "\"" expecting comment, "(", ":", operator, postfix conditional, postfix loop, postfix iteration, ";" or "}" at Prelude.pm line 682, column 9 Output is empty at util/gen_prelude.pl line 167. system: [/KNOPPIX/usr/bin/perl util/gen_prelude.pl -v -i src/perl6/Prelude.pm -p ./pugs --output blib6/lib/Prelude.pm.yml]: Tiedostoa tai hakemistoa ei ole at util/build_pugs.pl line 516. make: *** [pugs] Error 2 "Tiedostoa tai hakemistoa ei ole" is "No such file or directory" in english. I checked src/perl6/Prelude.pm but didn't see anything interesting on line 682. Maybe the linenumber was wrong? My system is Knoppix 4.0.2 CD + ghc 6.4.1 from Debian-backports. $ uname -a Linux Knoppix 2.6.12 #2 SMP Tue Aug 9 23:20:52 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux -- Markus Laire