Given that it's been almost 2 years I've gone ahead and pushed the
patches.

Looking at some sources upstream, to the best of my understanding
PERL6LIB should be changed to RAKULIB, but the %out/share/perl6 path
should stay, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me. It wasn't clear if
%out/share/perl6 was on purpose or because it was already in use and not
worth trying to change.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 05:14:38AM +0000, Paul A. Patience wrote:
> This patch series updates Rakudo to the latest version.
> It also updates all the packages in gnu/packages/perl6.scm to reflect the name
> change from Perl 6 to Raku, and also updates all the packages for which newer
> versions are available.
> 
> The reason this is a WIP is the following:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ raku -MFormat::Lisp
> ===SORRY!=== Error while compiling:
> Type check failed in binding to parameter '$address'; expected Str but got Any (Any)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Besides for that (admittedly major) issue, Raku runs fine.
> 
> Some other minor issues and comments:
> 
> • Building Rakudo results in warnings about bogus entries in RUNPATH, which I
>   don't know how to address:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> /gnu/store/j4swlyclrwf2sw334lxpf00ll2d0lw36-rakudo-2022.04/bin/raku: warning: RUNPATH contains bogus entries: ("//gnu/store/1w61hypzwmvxw5fpbnv5kx037qbw216k-moarvm-2022.04/lib")
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I tracked this down to moarvm but I didn't check further than that to
see if I could do anything about it.

> • I was unaware of bug#46352 [1] when I started updating Rakudo, and thus my
>   efforts were completely independent of Alexandru-Sergiu Marton's.
>   The only relevant difference between our patch series is that mine does not
>   package dyncall.
>   Perhaps it should.
> 
> • In a future patch series, we should rename perl6.scm to raku.scm and all the
>   perl6- prefixes to raku-, but note that perl6-tap-harness must be renamed to
>   raku-tap-harness6 to reflect the new upstream name.
>   The Rakudo build system also needs to be updated, because the prove6 script
>   no longer exists.
>   The documentation also needs to be updated.
> 
> • The PERL6LIB environment variable is deprecated in favor of RAKUDOLIB and
>   RAKULIB, but I don't know what that means for native-search-paths.
>   But dropping support for PERL6LIB can (and probably should) wait a while.
> 
> In conclusion, I'm going to try debugging the module compilation issues, but
> keeping in mind that I decided to update Rakudo because I was interested in
> learning some form of Perl (I didn't know the packaging rabbit hole I would be
> descending into :)), I don't know how much success I will have.
> I would appreciate any help or pointers.
> 
> Best regards,
> Paul
> 
> [1]: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=46352
> 
> Paul A. Patience (30):
>   gnu: moarvm: Remove trailing boolean.
>   gnu: nqp: Remove trailing booleans.
>   gnu: rakudo: Remove trailing booleans.
>   gnu: moarvm: Update to 2022.04.
>   gnu: Add nqp-configure.
>   gnu: nqp: Update to 2022.04.
>   gnu: rakudo: Update to 2022.04.
>   gnu: perl6-tap-harness: Update to 0.3.5.
>   gnu: perl6-zef: Update to 0.13.8.
>   gnu: perl6-terminal-ansicolor: Perl -> Raku.
>   gnu: perl6-grammar-debugger: Perl -> Raku.
>   gnu: perl6-grammar-profiler-simple: Perl -> Raku.
>   gnu: perl6-json: Perl -> Raku.
>   gnu: perl6-json-fast: Update to 0.17.
>   gnu: Add perl6-json-optin.
>   gnu: perl6-json-name: Update to 0.0.6.
>   gnu: perl6-json-marshal: Update to 0.0.23.
>   gnu: perl6-json-unmarshal: Reindent.
>   gnu: perl6-json-class: Update to 0.0.18.
>   gnu: perl6-license-spdx: Update to 3.16.0.
>   gnu: perl6-meta6: Update to 0.0.26.
>   gnu: perl6-mime-base64: Update to 1.2.3.
>   gnu: perl6-oo-monitors: Update to 1.1.1.
>   gnu: perl6-xml-writer: Perl -> Raku.
>   gnu: perl6-svg: Perl -> Raku.
>   gnu: perl6-svg-plot: Perl -> Raku.
>   gnu: perl6-uri: Update to 0.3.5.
>   gnu: perl6-test-meta: Update to 0.0.17.
>   gnu: perl6-test-mock: Update to 1.5-0.1130427.
>   gnu: Add perl6-format-lisp.
> 
>  gnu/packages/perl6.scm             | 906 ++++++++++++++++-------------
>  guix/build/rakudo-build-system.scm |   8 +-
>  2 files changed, 515 insertions(+), 399 deletions(-)
> 
> --
> 2.36.0
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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