Re: [perl #131481] [BUG] No perl6-debug

If rakudobrew is only for core hackers, then why is it on the rakudo site as the best way to get rakudo? As for documentation, I googled perl6 debug and find perl6-debug. I am informed that it is available when perl6 is installed. I now know that perl6-debug-m is bit rotted, but I quote from 5

Re: [perl #131481] [BUG] No perl6-debug

I would like to work on perl6-debug. But where to start? I am daunted by the prospect. Some questions - hopefully easy to answer. 1) In earlier updates there was a perl6-debug executable. Was this just a link to perl6-debug-m? 2) perl6-debug worked before, and then stopped working. You said '

Re: [perl #131481] [BUG] No perl6-debug

Thanks for feedback. A follow up: > Yes, use `no precompilation` pragma. > > So I would have in the topmost program: use v6.c; no precompilation; In the documentation (https://docs.perl6.org/language/pragmas), precompilation is labelled [TBD] So is it ignored ? Regards, Richard

Re: [perl #131481] [BUG] No perl6-debug

This is slightly different to what is in documentation. ' "[TBD]" are to be defined later' is in the file I took "defined" to mean "done" rather than "documented". In other words, something that did not exist, but should exist. What seems to be the case is that "defined" means "exists, but is n

Re: [perl #131481] [BUG] No perl6-debug

Just started work on getting perl6-debug to work again. Some help: There is a commit to rakudo-debug - pmurias committed on 26 Mar This is about the time the debugger went AWOL. So I thought to reverse the commit locally to verify. But I'm having a problem getting