On Sat Aug 28 12:16:35 2010, pmichaud wrote: > > 1. Download the Rakudo Star tarball. > 2. Unpack the tarball. > 3. Run Configure.pl, passing the ultimate install dir to --prefix. > Since you ultimately want to eliminate the install stuff, make > sure the install is somewhere outside of the tarball root: > (I've used $HOME/install in the example below.) > 4. Run "make install". > > $ tar xvfz rakudo-star-2010.08.tar.gz > $ cd rakudo-star-2010.08 > $ perl Configure.pl --gen-parrot --prefix=$HOME/install > $ make install > > After the "make install" step, you should be able to remove the > entire rakudo-star-2010.08 directory -- i.e., all the files needed > to run Rakudo (and modules) are installed to the appropriate location > in the install/ directory. >
Patrick, Thank you very much. That DWIMmed exactly and got my disk usage down from >95% to 84%. > ...removing the rakudo/ directory also removes its tests. AIUI, > normally tests aren't installed along with an application; > they tend to remain with the source files. > Correct. What I decided to do was to run 'make rakudo-test' as a sanity check prior to 'make install'. I then removed the entire rakudo-star-2010.08/ directory. Thanks again. kid51
