# New Ticket Created by James E Keenan # Please include the string: [perl #127355] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127355 >
Following up on my failed attempt to build Rakudo Star on an older Mac (https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127308), this morning I attempted to build the Rakudo compiler from blead. Following the instructions at http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo/#Installing-Rakudo, I downloaded the source, switched into the rakudo directory and tried to configure. Here is the result: ##### Script started on Sat Jan 23 07:04:40 2016 $ perl Configure.pl --gen-moar --gen-nqp --backends=moar ATTENTION: no --prefix supplied, building and installing to /Users/jimk/gitwork/rakudo/install sh: line 1: /Users/jimk/gitwork/rakudo/install/bin/nqp-m: No such file or directory Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/jimk/gitwork/rakudo/nqp/.git/ fatal: https://github.com/perl6/nqp.git/info/refs download error - Protocol https not supported or disabled in libcurl Command failed (status 32768): git clone https://github.com/perl6/nqp.git nqp ##### 2 problems: 1. /Users/jimk/gitwork/rakudo/install was not created. Why not? This seems like a very elementary problem. 2. Why is Rakudo configuration so dependent on a specific version of git or on a specific protocol? Notwithstanding the age of this machine and the unavailability or unbuildability of any git version newer than the 1.6.3.2 which I have, I've been able to use 'git clone' on many github.com projects for at least 6 years. It appears that Rakudo, Moar, etc., have hard-wired themselves to expect certain versions of git and are therefore less accessible than most other projects on github. Now, I can very well imagine that Rakudo, Moar and Perl 6 might all fail to build on a 12-year-old machine due to lack of memory or inability to install a minimal version of some C compiler. But they should not fail due to a limitation of the machine's version control client. That's simply stupid. Can this be corrected? Thank you very much. Jim Keenan -- James E Keenan (jkee...@cpan.org)
