Lyle wrote:
> Ron Blaschke wrote:
>> On 06.04.2009 04:17, Bruce Gray wrote:
>>   
>>> On Apr 5, 2009, at 6:48 PM, Lyle wrote:
>>>     
>>>> --snip--
>>>> There is a problem with the Rakudo Makefile? Help would be very much
>>>> appreciated...
>>>> http://perl.bristolbath.org/blog/lyle/2009/04/first-perl-6-experiences.html
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> Yes, there is a problem. I have duplicated it under MinGW/Win2K, but
>>> have not fully analyzed it yet.
>>>
>>> Workaround:
>>> Line 330 of the Makefile reads something like:
>>>     CRITIC_FILES=Configure.pl t\harness build\ tools\
>>> Change all three of line 330's backslashes to forward-slashes, and then
>>> `mingw32-make` will work. i.e.:
>>>     CRITIC_FILES=Configure.pl t/harness build/ tools/
>>>     
>>
>> A backslash followed by a line terminator tells make (including variants
>> like nmake) to continue reading on the next line (line-continuation).
>> That way, the Makefile doesn't make sense any more.
>>
>> The easiest workaround to avoid the line-continuation is to add a space
>> at the end, i.e.
>>   CRITIC_FILES=Configure.pl t\harness build\ tools\
>>   
> 
> François Perrad wrote:
>  > Makefile is generated, so this modification will be lost.
>  >
>  > in build/Makefile.in, just insert a empty line between :
>  > CRITIC_FILES=Configure.pl t/harness build/ tools/
>  > perlcritic:

I've inserted the newline in the hope that it'll help, although I don't
quite understand the generation process. Is this fixed now in an
up-to-date Rakudo?

> 
> All of those solutions worked. Thank you. I'm hoping that we'll start 
> hosting regular Perl 6 hackathons, and we may be able to help 
> development in the future. Are their set guidelines for doing this kind 
> of thing?

Maybe http://rakudo.org/developers-guide might be of some help?
If you have more specific questions, don't hesitate to ask!

Cheers,
Moritz
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