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Setting up mod_perl6: Part 1

The Thousand Oaks Mongers are going to host a half-day Perl 6 hackathon next Saturday (the 22nd) as already talked about here. So far we have three people involved, including myself. We’d like to create a web site that displays aggregated data from other web sites, such as twitter. We’ve divided our tasks up between the three of us:

• Todd Prest: Database access of some sort. So far Todd has gotten sqlite 3 mostly working and has learned a lot about DBDI (the DBI for perl6) and other bits.
• Shawn Faison: Write some libraries to pull data from various web sites.
• Aran Deltac (me): Get mod_perl6 up and running.

So far my adventures in getting mod_perl6 working have been stalled. Getting rakudo and parrot setup is EASY, just follow these instructions. Once that was setup I went and grabbed mod_parrot. I first grabbed the version 0.05 tarball which failed on make. So, I figured that since 0.05 was released in January its probably way behind the currnet parrot/rakuda development and that I should try out the latest bleeding-edge version of mod_parrot. This time mod_parrot built fine (with lots of warnings) and then failed on make test.

dukeleta over at #parrot valiantly tried to help me resolve the issue, but in the end he figured that the lead developer of mod_parrot, Jeff Horwitz (jhorwitz), would be able to help me out.

The details of my issues are illustrated in this no paste.

I’m not sure how to get ahold of Jeff (he hasn’t been on #parrot for almost a month) and I need to go with the family to the fair.

One way or another, before the hackathon, I’ll either have to find Jeff, figure out how to fix mod_parrot to work, or run an older version of parrot/rakudo that does work with mod_parrot.