From eca3820c05f693b16d8cbc94330c72e7e864cbfa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pmichaud Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:59:05 -0500 Subject: Update the README with information about memory requirements for build. --- skel/README | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'skel/README') 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/). -- cgit v1.1