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udpate README, and version in Makefile.in
README is still not quite tristar ready
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moritz committed Apr 18, 2014
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This is Rakudo Star, a useful, usable Perl 6 distribution for "early adopters".

This is the 2014.03 release of Rakudo Star.
This is the 2014.04 release of Rakudo Star.

Rakudo Star is Copyright (C) 2010 - 2014 by the Rakudo Star Team.

Expand All @@ -18,15 +18,19 @@ and Perl 5.9.0 or newer. You probably also want a machine with a fair
amount of memory available: 1GB is known to be too small for building
Rakudo, while 2GB is generally known to be sufficient.

In order to fully support Unicode, you'll also want to have the
In order to fully support Unicode on the parrot backend, you'll also
want to have the
ICU library installed (http://site.icu-project.org/).
Rakudo can run without ICU, but some Unicode-related features
will not work properly.

For the JVM Backend, you also need the Java Development kit, for example
openjdk-7 or the Oracle JDK.

On Debian GNU/Linux or Ubuntu Linux, the necessary components
for building Rakudo can be installed via the command

aptitude install build-essential libicu-dev
aptitude install build-essential libicu-dev openjdk-7-jdk

Readline support also requires the "libreadline-dev" library.

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--------------------
The basic steps to build Rakudo Star are:

$ perl Configure.pl --gen-parrot
$ perl Configure.pl --gen-parrot --gen-moar
$ make
$ make install

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The "--gen-parrot" option above tells Configure.pl to automatically
build and install the version of Parrot that is distributed with
Rakudo Star. The "--prefix=" option can be provided to Configure.pl
Rakudo Star. Likewise "--gen-moar" builds the MoarVM distributed with
Rakudo Star. The "--prefix=" option can be provided to Configure.pl
to change the location of the install directory. Note that Rakudo based
on Parrot can only be installed to the same prefix as Parrot.

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MOAR_DIR = moarvm
NQP_DIR = nqp
RAKUDO_DIR = rakudo
STAR_VERSION = 2014.03
STAR_VERSION = 2014.04

# install location
PREFIX_DIR = @prefix@
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