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Can't force a rebuild of nqp or vm's from rakudo's configure. #3510

Open p6rt opened 9 years ago

p6rt commented 9 years ago

Migrated from rt.perl.org#122734 (status was 'open')

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p6rt commented 9 years ago

From @coke

When installing rakudo somewhere else on your system, we can't force a rebuild of nqp or the vms without first removing the existing installed copies (which means we have a period where we'd break the usage of rakudo for any users on the box.)

The easiest solution I can think of is to add a --force option to Configure.pl which would force nqp/vm's to be re-built and reinstalled into the prefix directory, regardless of whether the installed versions at that prefix were recent enough.

This would also avoid the issue of re-building a VM with different config options. e.g. rebuilding rakudo-on-moar to use the JIT - currently if you have a new enough version of moar installed, you couldn't install a new one with a different JIT option without removing the installed version first.

-- Will "Coke" Coleda

p6rt commented 8 years ago

@coke - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'