Package request: Rakudo (a.k.a. Perl 6) #1324

ddeimeke · 2017-08-28T09:26:59Z

Perl 6 is called "Rakudo" in Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu.

ohmycloud · 2017-12-29T04:00:54Z

+1

sydneyfalk · 2018-01-09T23:10:08Z

also interested in this, I realize it's not wide appeal or high urgency but it'd be a nice feature for the people learning p6 now that books are coming out for it ^_^

Mu-00 · 2018-01-21T13:30:32Z

On the contrary, now there are 4 backers for this request, and I guess it would give termux a lot of additional interest if it provides a rakudo star package.
Rakudo star on ARM is available for all debian versions, sources are here: https://rakudo.perl6.org/downloads/star/
After I got my new device first thing was to install termux and try to compile rakudo, but at
least a few libraries are missing.
So far I found no easy example for crosscompiling a package for termux, if there should be some basic guide please point me to it.

sydneyfalk · 2018-01-22T02:06:58Z

Sorry if it seemed like I was belittling it in any way -- I really wasn't.

I just meant compared to something with a long, known set of niche applications (like, say, Prolog or Forth) or something popular and everywhere (like Ruby and Python) a Perl 6 package isn't going to have as wide an appeal. (But this isn't to say lacking 'wide appeal' is a signal of poor quality or anything. It's not like the best restaurant on earth is McDonald's, after all.)

As for the urgency, I only meant that I could imagine there are a lot of things that are higher priority overall.

Hopefully that clears things up! ^_^

its-pointless · 2018-01-22T07:00:26Z

its currently building in my android 6 x86_64 vm. See if i can get something

Mu-00 · 2018-01-22T14:03:21Z

its-pointless, that would be really gorgeous. I'm just realizing that my new Onyx Boox Max2 with 13,3" e-ink Display and termux for some things is better suited than my Laptop.
Reading a book and switching to console practicing is a breeze.

its-pointless · 2018-01-22T22:48:14Z

okay i got it to install on device. Moarvm and libtommath cross compiled from pc. Caveats MVM_SPESH_DISABLE=1 was used....

its-pointless · 2018-01-22T23:47:54Z

if you want to have a try at this iv put moarvm and libtommath packages on my repo github.com/its-pointless/gcc_termux readme for instructions...

Mu-00 · 2018-01-23T10:20:18Z

Great. I installed moarvm following your instructions and it's up and running, so far no problems.

Mu-00 · 2018-01-23T11:19:27Z

I symlinked the moar executable into install/bin of rakudo-star tree and tried to compile rakudo star on device, but it fails at some point with nqp. Perhaps it needs more than just the executable.

Mu-00 · 2018-01-24T17:06:38Z

If you install moarvm from its-pointless and unpack rakudo-star sources into your $HOME and run perl Configure.pl --backend=moar --gen-nqp it will fail because it expects moar and share/nqp/lib in source tree/install. I don't know if it would help to add --prefix=../usr, I don't want it to install stuff somewhere. So solution is to do
ln -s ../usr/bin/moar in install/bin and
ln -s ../usr/share/nqp/lib in install/share/nqp
On my regular machine I was able to compile nqp and afterwards make rakudo.
On device it's currently compiling ... :)

Mu-00 · 2018-01-24T17:21:59Z

nqp compiled. The final make failed. Unfortunately I can't transfer the log now, abbreviated
something like:
src/vm/moar/ops/perl6_ops.c:2:
...com.termux/files/usr/include/moar/moar.h:24:10:
uv.h file not found
#include uv.h

Mu-00 · 2018-01-24T17:26:19Z

FWIW, libuv 1.19.1 is installed

its-pointless · 2018-01-24T22:04:47Z

I didn't need to link moarvm
All I did was
export MVM_SPESH_DISABLE=1
perl Configure.pl --backends=moar --gen-moar --prefix=$PREFIX --sysroot=$PREFIX
make install

its-pointless · 2018-01-24T22:06:41Z

Also make sure libuv-dev is installed

Mu-00 · 2018-01-24T23:11:03Z

the final make that builds perl6 doesn't find stuff in source_tree/MoarVM/3rdparty/*
instead it's looking in /usr/include
no quick and dirty hack for this one, tomorrow I try --prefix/ --sysroot, though I don't understand it

Mu-00 · 2018-01-24T23:27:26Z

Yes. Forget everybody everything I said and follow instruction from it-pointless.

Mu-00 · 2018-01-24T23:39:15Z

I made clean and issued your commands. The following happens:

It states moar is new enough and uses that one you provided
It successfully compiles nqp
It fails after make because it does not find stuff in source_tree/MoarVM/3rdparty/,
instead it looks in /usr/include. If libuv-dev is installed, it finds that header, but fails
with the next atomic_ops.h. It's about source_tree/MoarVM/3rdparty/

Mu-00 · 2018-01-25T00:02:33Z

It doesn't help to pkg uninstall moarvm (keeping libffi libtommath), that leads
to configuration fail, also because of 3rdparty

its-pointless · 2018-01-25T05:23:08Z

oh you need atomic-ops-dev package

forgot to upload that....
apt install libatomic-ops-dev
sorry about that been doing about 5 different things at once

Mu-00 · 2018-01-25T14:33:30Z

You're work is much appreciated!
Also needed is
apt install libffi-dev libtommath-dev

Mu-00 · 2018-01-25T15:34:02Z

After that make succeeds, with warning
linker: ...rakudo/dynext/libperl6.ops.moar.so: unused DT entry: type 0xf arg 0x52a
but make install hangs
in order to get rid of warnings I did
termux-elf-cleaner rakudo/dynext/libperl6_ops_moar.so
make install hangs shortly after copying libperl6_ops_moar.so
while doing this:
perl6-m tools/build/install-core-dist.pl $PREFIX/usr/share/perl6

Squifi · 2018-02-05T19:06:57Z

Hi, i am also interested in trying to install rakudo on my android tablet.
i followed the steps mentioned above, sadly not able to get past the instructions given by its-pointless.
export MVM_SPESH_DISABLE=1
perl Configure.pl --backends=moar --gen-moar --prefix=$PREFIX --sysroot=$PREFIX
make install

Sadly
probing pthread_yield support ...................... NO
probing support of rdtscp intrinsic ................ NO

Doesnt work and libuv isn't found although i have the 1.9.1 version installed.
Am I missing something or is that the current status.

Kind regards, squifi

Mu-00 · 2018-02-06T05:36:18Z

You need
apt install libatomic-ops-dev libffi-dev libtommath-dev libuv-dev

What worked for me was making nqp and rakudo IF the crosscompiled moarvm from
its-pointless is installed. It will skip moarvm if moarvm is up to date, so you need
either rakudo 2017-12 or rakudo-star 2017-10
BUT make install will fail.
So perl6-m will be in the build tree.
As-is it's not really helpful, I'm not using it.

its-pointless · 2018-02-06T06:35:48Z

I got it to install just when it hangs stop and try make install again.

Mu-00 · 2018-02-06T11:11:08Z

I tried that before and again, it's not working for me.
perl6-m tools/build/install-core-dist.pl $PREFIX/usr/share/perl6
is the latest I see.
I have no idea how the installation process works, there are these precomp
binaries in $PREFIX/usr/share/perl6

Squifi · 2018-02-07T19:06:44Z

Thx for your replies, i'll continue to try.
Got the dependencies, but sadly still no luck atm

sydneyfalk · 2018-02-23T08:31:31Z

Awesome to see I'm not the only person interested!

I've been juggling RL too much lately but I have been reading the thread off and on and will be trying to do it too in a week or so, with the assistance of my far more well-versed-in-these-things spousal unit. ^_^

Mu-00 · 2018-02-23T17:38:54Z

I want to mention that I tried to install debian on termux using sp4rkie's script
https://github.com/sp4rkie/debian-on-termux
but failed initially a few weeks ago.
Now it is working with stable and testing and the slight modification suggested here sp4rkie/debian-on-termux#12 (comment).
I installed testing, which required 412M.
I added unstable to /etc/apt/sources.list and installed rakudo-2018.1 with
apt-get -t unstable install rakudo
testing version would be rakudo-2017.6
(of course apt preferences need to be set appropriately to keep unstable rakudo on testing)

its-pointless · 2018-04-05T04:59:47Z

I have found a .. bad way of getting this built in termux
but still..
for some reason its not killing threads that need to be killed so i did it manually during the install process....

Rakudo Star has been built and installed successfully.
Please make sure that the following directories are in PATH:
/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin
/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/share/perl6/site/bin

its-pointless · 2018-04-06T03:13:48Z

okay using htop...
this is what is i see
during build the bug occurs when it spawns 2 process with the same command. the earlier one will go for a brief moment and then second will cause a dead lock. This second is identified by its shared memory value of 0....
killing this secondary process enable the build to continue.

ohmycloud · 2018-11-04T15:26:40Z

is Perl 6 available for termux-packages finally?

ghost · 2018-11-04T15:33:07Z

@ohmycloud If issue is Open then package is not available at this time.

ohmycloud · 2019-05-31T10:18:23Z

I found a rakudo package in this repository:
https://github.com/its-pointless/its-pointless.github.io/blob/0d6340f2e7db3be83d949f0411407073cd1b7710/files/24/dists/termux/extras/binary-aarch64/Packages

startup termux and download

curl -O https://its-pointless.github.io/setup-pointless-repo.sh
chmod +x setup-pointless-repo.sh
./setup-pointless-repo.sh
apt-get install rakudo

licy183 · 2023-12-19T13:22:41Z

This package request is associated with three package, moarvm, nqp and rakudo. moarvm can be cross-compiled, but nqp and rakudo cannot. I don't know if it is necessary to add moarvm only.

fornwall changed the title ~~Please provide Perl 6 for Termux~~ Package request: Perl 6 Sep 6, 2017

fornwall added the package request A new package was requested. label Sep 6, 2017

ghost added the help wanted Help is wanted in order to solve the issue. label May 6, 2020

xtkoba changed the title ~~Package request: Perl 6~~ Package request: Rakudo (a.k.a. Perl 6) Sep 13, 2022

xtkoba mentioned this issue Sep 13, 2022

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Package request: Rakudo (a.k.a. Perl 6) #1324

Package request: Rakudo (a.k.a. Perl 6) #1324

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