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diff --git a/content/posts/openbsd-compiling-rakudo-star/index.org b/content/posts/openbsd-compiling-rakudo-star/index.org index ecb4b90..c2554a8 100644 --- a/content/posts/openbsd-compiling-rakudo-star/index.org +++ b/content/posts/openbsd-compiling-rakudo-star/index.org @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ I really enjoy using [[https://raku.org/][raku]] to write small scripts for system maintenance and text parsing. Its regex and grammar engine are next -level. The problem with using it on OpenBSD is that the packaged +level! The problem with using it on OpenBSD is that the packaged version is a couple years out of date. The version in ports is from 2018, which contains a bug regarding NativeCall on OpenBSD. Not to mention it's missing a lot of performance gains and patches. @@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ fetch= fetches all of the materials required to compile and assemble the star distribution, and while all of the community modules were successfully retrieved using =git=, it failed to pull in all 3 major source components. =MoarVM=, =nqp=, and =rakudo=, are pulled in as -gzipped tarballs, each of them failing to download correctly. I -suspect it's an issue with something in the bash scripts. Tar also -throws a warning about one of its arguments, which has to do with the -script using a GNU tar specific command. +gzipped tarballs, each of them failing to download. I suspect it's an +issue with something in the bash scripts. Tar also throws a warning +about one of its arguments, which has to do with the script using a +GNU tar specific command. #+BEGIN_SRC [2020-07-25T05:25:33] [NOTIC] Downloading https://www.moarvm.org/releases/MoarVM-2020.02.1.tar.gz to /home/dante/star/tmp/tmp.IMPt8mIFoC @@ -54,10 +54,9 @@ tar: WARNING! These patterns were not matched: To work around this I downloaded the required files manually using OpenBSD's =ftp= command and extracted them into the =src= directory -that had been created by the script. Another small caveat is that -MoarVM automatically extracts into a directory called -=MoarVM-2020.02.1=, which needs to be completely lower-cased for the -=rstar= to work. +that had been created by the script. A small caveat is that MoarVM +automatically extracts into a directory called =MoarVM-2020.02.1=, +which needs to be completely lower-cased for the =rstar= to work. #+BEGIN_SRC shell cd src @@ -109,8 +108,8 @@ make While rakudo was compiling, I monitored memory usage in a separate =tmux= pane, and noticed that the =moarvm= process was using around 760 MB of RAM before it crashed. 768 MB is the maximum amount of ram a -process can use in OpenBSD under a user with the default login class, -as specified in =/etc/login.conf=. +process can use in OpenBSD when run by a user with the default login +class, as specified in =/etc/login.conf=. To remedy the problem, I changed my user's class to =staff=, which grants it a much higher =datasize= limit, among a couple other @@ -121,12 +120,12 @@ things. If you're interested about how this works, you can check out doas usermod -L staff dante #+END_SRC -After that, I restarted the build and install using the =rstar= -command as before, just to make sure it sets everything up how it -wants. +After that, I restarted the build and install using the =rstar +install= command as before, just to make sure it sets everything up +how it wants. -After a around half an hour of text scrolling, I was finally presented -the following message. +After about half an hour of compilation, I was finally presented the +following message. #+BEGIN_SRC [2020-07-25T06:34:06] [INFO] Rakudo Star has been installed into /home/dante/star! @@ -155,9 +154,9 @@ and inserting the following line. export PATH HOME TERM #+END_SRC -I chose to keep it in the =star= directory instead of installing it to -=/usr/local= in case the version of rakudo in ports gets updated some -time. +I chose to keep it in the =/home/dante/star= directory instead of +installing it to =/usr/local= in case the version of rakudo in ports +gets updated some time. I now have an up to date version of raku running on my OpenBSD machine! |