Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
Merge branch 'master' of git@github.com:rakudo/rakudo
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
  • Loading branch information
pmichaud committed Aug 20, 2009
2 parents 42d8ebd + bffd1ca commit 0e5e157
Showing 1 changed file with 12 additions and 14 deletions.
26 changes: 12 additions & 14 deletions docs/announce/2009-08
Expand Up @@ -18,21 +18,19 @@ Portland Perl Mongers. PDX.pm has been home to several Rakudo
contributors (chromatic, Allison Randal, and more) and PDX.pm has
held meetings that have produced feature and bugfix patches for Rakudo.

Beginning with this release, Rakudo Perl now builds itself from an
"installed Parrot" instead of using Parrot's build tree. This
release of Rakudo requires Parrot 1.5.0. See the "Building and
invoking Rakudo" section of the README file for the latest
information on building and using Rakudo Perl. (Quick note:
the "--gen-parrot" option still automatically downloads and
builds Parrot as before, if you prefer that approach.)

Also, unlike previous versions of Rakudo Perl, the "perl6"
(or "perl6.exe") binaries will only work when run from the
Beginning with this release, Rakudo Perl builds from an "installed
Parrot" instead of using Parrot's build tree. This release of Rakudo
requires Parrot 1.5.0. For the latest information on building and
using Rakudo Perl, see the README file section titled "Building and
invoking Rakudo". (Quick note: the "--gen-parrot" option still
automatically downloads and builds Parrot as before, if you prefer
that approach.)

Also, unlike previous versions of Rakudo Perl, the "perl6"
(or "perl6.exe") executables only work when run from the
Rakudo root directory until a "make install" is performed.
The "make install" target installs Rakudo into the appropriate
locations provided by the installed Parrot that was used to build
Rakudo. Once this is done, the executables can be run from
any directory.
Running "make install" will install Rakudo into the appropriate
locations, and those executables can be run from any directory.

Some of the specific major changes and improvements occuring
with this release include:
Expand Down

0 comments on commit 0e5e157

Please sign in to comment.