[perl #126894] Cannot create Debian package with current rakudo-star build system

[Dominique Dumont]

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Hello

I'm trying to create a rakudo-star package for Debian using
pre-installed moar and nqp.

rakudo compilation works fine but I cannot figure out a way to
pre-compile and install the perl6 modules delivered with rakudo-star.

Debian packaging system requires that a package is built as normal
user (not root) and that the build products of a package are installed
in a temporary location. This means that the pre-compilation step
should use perl6-m installed in the temporary location (with the
moar-vm libraries also installed in the temp location).

When the package is installed on a Debian system, all files are
installed in /usr.

To compile a package, I've tried:

perl Configure.pl --prefix=/usr --backends=moar
-> this fails because make install will try (and fail) to install file in /usr as a normal user

perl Configure.pl --prefix=/usr --sdkroot=/path-to-tmp-dir --backends=moar
-> this fails because Configure.pl tries to find nqp and moar in /path-to-tmp-dir/usr/bin

perl Configure.pl --prefix=/path-to-tmp-dir/usr --backends=moar
-> this fails because /usr/bin/perl6-m ends up with temporary paths

perl Configure.pl --prefix=/usr --backends=moar
export DESTDIR=/path-to-tmp-dir ; make install && make modules-install
-> module precompilation fails because perl6-m search for libraries in /usr/share but
these files are not installed there yet.

To create Debian package, I need a new option to Configure.pl to
specify a temporary installation location:
- which is not used to locate pre-installed nqp and moar
- which is used to load rakudo libraries when rakudo is used to build modules
- which is not delivered in final installation step

If this solution is too difficult, another possibility is to add a way
to build rakudo-star modules using a pre-installed rakudo.

All the best

[Dominique Dumont via RT]

Le Fri, 26 Apr 2019 08:28:23 -0700, ni...@detonation.org a écrit :
> I'm quite sure all the issues in that ticket have been resolved.

Yes. We managed to create separate Debian packages for moar, nqp and rakudo. We are also creating package for individual Perl6 modules, but we're still for from providing all the packages found in rakudo-star.

I'm sorry that I forgot about this bug I opened a while ago.

Thanks for taking care of it.

All the best

Dod