On 02/05/2016 01:57 AM, James E Keenan wrote:
Follow-up questions to those I posed on perl6-users today.
So I have successfully used rakudobrew to build moar and panda. That
perl6 executable is located here:
$ which perl6
/home/jkeenan/.rakudobrew/bin/perl6
Now, suppose I *also* wish to install Rakudo Star. I've downloaded the
rakudo-star-2016.01 tarball and have read the instructions in README for
installation. From past experience, I guess that if I say simply:
$ perl Configure.pl --backend=moar --gen-moar
$ make
$ make install
... that this will install in /usr/local/bin/. Is that recommended
(assuming that my main emphasis is on learning Perl6 in the context of a
beginners study group)?
I generally recommend installing star releases.
We didn't have an R* release for some time, which is why recommendations
for perlbrew have started to show up, but that's more for staying at the
(b)leading edge, not for beginners.
Is there a PREFIX setting,
sure, Configure.pl --prefix=... --gen-moar
(--gen-moar implies backend moar)
should I wish to install it under my home
directory?
It makes permission management easier, which is why I tend to do that.
Cheers,
Moritz
