<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On Dec 26, 2013, at 10:25 PM, Tommy Butler <<a href="mailto:dfwpm@internetalias.net">dfwpm@internetalias.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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sans-serif">Do you want a custom-compiled Rakudo, or is the current stable
release (according to the Debian Rakudo Maintainers) ok with
you? It's version 0.1~2012.01-1<br></font></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>The bare “Rakudo” 2012.01 release will not be very useful.</div><div><br></div><div>The "Rakudo Star” package includes modules that anyone would need for this contest (e.g. Digest::MD5 and File::Find).</div><div>The latest is 2013.12.</div><div><br></div><div><div>These steps (retrieve+build+install) completed in <15 minutes on my laptop:</div><div> curl -O <a href="http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/rakudo-star-2013.12.tar.gz">http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/rakudo-star-2013.12.tar.gz</a></div><div> tar xf rakudo-star-2013.12.tar.gz</div><div> cd rakudo-star-2013.12</div><div> perl Configure.pl --prefix=/usr/local/rakudo --gen-parrot &> conf.log</div><div> make &> make.log</div><div> make install &> inst.log</div><div> /usr/local/rakudo/bin/perl6 -e 'say "It works!"'</div><div>Of course, replace /usr/local/rakudo with your choice of location.</div><div><br></div><div>— </div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Bruce Gray</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>