# New Ticket Created by Scott Penrose # Please include the string: [perl #70642] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=70642 >
Picked up a compile time problem with Rakudo today. It is actually Parrot that uses perl5 to calculate which libraries and headers to use, and it was using invalid/old entries between an OS upgrade on Mac OS X. This was fixed by running /usr/bin/perl Configure.pl --gen-parrot instead of just perl Configure-pl --gen-parrot. Scott diff --git a/README b/README index ed46305..c3c5d8f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -61,6 +61,13 @@ This will create a "perl6" or "perl6.exe" executable in the current (rakudo) directory. Programs can then be run from the build directory using a command like: +Parrot uses perl 5 executable to calculate build dependencies. You may +need to check that your version of perl is correct for the system. +Check "which perl" is being used as some applications install a +special version of perl. Mac OS X package management such as 'ports' +has a differnet compile to the OS native perl, which may not work +when compiling Rakudo. + $ ./perl6 hello.pl The C<--gen-parrot> above option tells Configure.pl to automatically