[Ottawa-pm] Perl 5 to 6 tutorials

[Yanick Champoux]

Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Yanick Champoux
> <yanick at babyl.dyndns.org> wrote:
>>        I also got around compiling Rakudo (the Perl6 engine running on top
>> of Parrot) last week. Which means I have less and less reasons not to begin
>> to poke around Perl6.  Hmmm... might be something to do over the Holiday
>> season. :-)
> 
> Hmm. I tried quickly but I couldn't get the parrot source to build on
> my CentOS 4.6 machine with Perl 5.8. Does it require a newer Perl?

	I would expect Perl 5.8 to be just fine for the task (and it's exactly 
what is required within Parrot's Makefile.PL).  At which point of the 
build process did it choke?

Joy,
`/anick