Rakudo cygwin make: "no rule to make target 'perl6'"

Peter Schwenn peter at schwenn.com
Tue Feb 10 22:34:51 UTC 2009


I found no git in Strawberry Perl so I installed Cygwin (with all git
modules) but
using that git got me (after using SVN to update and make parrot itself):

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pschwenn at pschwen-5p8x0f1 /cygdrive/c/parrot/languages
$ git clone git://github.com/rakudo/rakudo.git
Initialized empty Git repository in
/cygdrive/c/parrot/languages/rakudo/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 11613, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3072/3072), done.
remote: Total 11613 (delta 8333), reused 11505 (delta 8262)
Receiving objects: 100% (11613/11613), 1.59 MiB | 76 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (8333/8333), done.
error: refs/remotes/origin/master does not point to a valid object!
error: refs/remotes/origin/gh-pages does not point to a valid object!
error: Trying to write ref refs/heads/master with nonexistant object
e73c9586051
a205a84d35f0629ae3a96fe2d69c7
fatal: Cannot update the ref 'HEAD'.
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Is it the case that I should be using some other Windows version of git?

Peter Schwenn
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Moritz Lenz <moritz at faui2k3.org> wrote:

> Peter Schwenn wrote:
> > Parrot0.9.0 makes and tests successfully (including perl6).
> >
> > But for any SVN revision after that, "mingw32-make perl6" returns:
> >
> > "no rule to make target 'perl6" .
>
> That might be related to Rakudo moving out of the parrot repository.
> Please follow the new instructions on
> http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-6/where-rakudo-lives.writeback
> the "perl6" make target should work inside Rakudo's directory now.
>
> Cheers,
> Moritz
>
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