Gerd or Allison (TT 873)

[Jerome Quelin]

On 09/12/08 16:34 +0100, Moritz Lenz wrote:
> I don't understand why the sources need to be available. Last I checked this
> works:
> 
> cd parrot
> perl Configure.pl --prefix=/some/path/
> make install
> cd ..
> rm -rf parrot
> cd rakudo
> perl Configure.pl --parrot-config=/some/path/bin/parrot_config
> make install
> cd ..
> rm -rf rakudo
> /some/path/bin/perl6 -e 'say "hi"'
> 
> So according to my understanding, Rakudo requires a full parrot to be installed
> ('make install', not just 'make install-bin' or so), but not the parrot source
> tree.
> 
> Did I miss something? Or does that not work anymore?

it works, but needs the files that get installed in /usr/src/parrot
what are those files? are they really needed? will the keep being
needed?

also, will the version scheme yyyy-mm last? (i'm fine with that, but
would like to know)

jérôme 
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