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| author | pmichaud <pmichaud@pobox.com> | 2010-07-31 15:59:05 -0500 |
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| committer | pmichaud <pmichaud@pobox.com> | 2010-07-31 15:59:05 -0500 |
| commit | eca3820c05f693b16d8cbc94330c72e7e864cbfa (patch) | |
| tree | 4b55da27b86a4fff07ce4a9dc7d5c9a55aed9129 /skel/README | |
| parent | 46d3d7ca7000a64022538bc0666755522468c234 (diff) | |
Update the README with information about memory requirements for build.
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| -rw-r--r-- | skel/README | 4 |
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diff --git a/skel/README b/skel/README index ccf5bbf..aa36580 100644 --- a/skel/README +++ b/skel/README @@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ copyright and licensing information of those components. Build Prerequisites ------------------- To build Rakudo Star you need at least a C compiler, a 'make' utility, -and Perl 5.8.4 or newer. +and Perl 5.8.4 or newer. You probably also want a machine with a fair +amount of memory available: 256MB is known to be too small for building +Rakudo, while 1GB is generally known to be sufficient. In order to fully support Unicode, you'll also want to have the ICU library installed (http://site.icu-project.org/). |