On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:49:01PM -0800, Darren Duncan wrote: > I think that a best practice these days is to download and build Parrot > separately (which can be in a custom location) and then separately > download and configure Rakudo to use Parrot's location, rather than use > gen_parrot. Parrot is gotten with Subversion, and Rakudo with Git. I > could be wrong. -- Darren Duncan
It's still often hard to know *which* revision of Parrot to get -- Rakudo doesn't always build against Parrot HEAD. (Phrased differently, sometimes Parrot introduces a change that breaks Rakudo until we have a chance to catch up.) So, for people whose primary aim is to build Rakudo, we continue to recommend the --gen-parrot approach. That gives the best shot at getting something working. If the primary aim is to build and install Rakudo for a more "site wide" purpose, then installing Parrot first and building Rakudo to use that makes more sense. But one has to be careful to match the Rakudo version with the corresponding Parrot version (in build/PARROT_REVISION of the Rakudo repository). Pm > > Richard Hainsworth wrote: >> Just got error from new clone rakudo directory, Viz. >> >> rich...@jupiter:~/Development$ git clone git://github.com/rakudo/rakudo.git >> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/richard/Development/rakudo/.git/ >> remote: Counting objects: 22035, done. >> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5908/5908), done. >> remote: Total 22035 (delta 16176), reused 21484 (delta 15720) >> Receiving objects: 100% (22035/22035), 2.92 MiB | 925 KiB/s, done. >> Resolving deltas: 100% (16176/16176), done. >> rich...@jupiter:~/Development$ cd rakudo/ >> rich...@jupiter:~/Development/rakudo$ perl Configure.pl --gen-parrot >> Generating Parrot ... >> /usr/bin/perl build/gen_parrot.pl >> --prefix=/home/richard/Development/rakudo/parrot_install --optimize >> >> Checking out Parrot r42403 via svn... >> Can't exec "svn": No such file or directory at build/gen_parrot.pl line 47. >> >> Configuring Parrot ... >> /usr/bin/perl Configure.pl >> --prefix=/home/richard/Development/rakudo/parrot_install --optimize >> Unknown option: prefix >> Unknown option: optimize >> ===SORRY!=== >> Unable to locate parrot_config >> >> To automatically checkout (svn) and build a copy of parrot r42403, >> try re-running Configure.pl with the '--gen-parrot' option. >> Or, use the '--parrot-config' option to explicitly specify >> the location of parrot_config to be used to build Rakudo Perl. >> >> >> Building Parrot ... >> ===SORRY!=== >> Unable to locate parrot_config >> >> To automatically checkout (svn) and build a copy of parrot r42403, >> try re-running Configure.pl with the '--gen-parrot' option. >> Or, use the '--parrot-config' option to explicitly specify >> the location of parrot_config to be used to build Rakudo Perl. >
