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I agree. Maybe rakudobrew should have a target that hits install, panda and p6doc and that being the default for new setups.

FYI, you can install p6doc with "panda install p6doc", which is the Perl 6 equivalent of perldoc. I don't believe it has in-language methods yet, but I imagine it wouldn't be that hard. For now, it's a CLI tool.

  # p6doc Str.tclc
   routine tclc

     multi sub    tclc(Str:D ) returns Str:D multi method tclc(Str:D:)
     returns Str:D
 
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Thanks. Tried installing but got errors.

    ==> Fetching p6doc
    ==> Building p6doc
    ==> Testing p6doc

    # Failed test 'empty blocks argument gives undefined content'
    # at t/pod-convenience.t line 31
        # Looks like you failed 1 test of 7

    # Failed test 'pod-with-title'
    # at t/pod-convenience.t line 23
    t/pod-convenience.t .. 
    Failed 2/10 subtests 
    t/pod-htmlify.t ...... ok
    Method 'super' not found for invocant of class 'Array'
      in sub visit at /home/me/.panda-work/1441386381_4/lib/Perl6/TypeGraph.pm:89
      in sub visit at /home/me/.panda-work/1441386381_4/lib/Perl6/TypeGraph.pm:89
      in method topo-sort at /home/me/.panda-work/1441386381_4/lib/Perl6/TypeGraph.pm:92
      in method parse-from-file at /home/me/.panda-work/1441386381_4/lib/Perl6/TypeGraph.pm:82
      in method new-from-file at /home/me/.panda-work/1441386381_4/lib/Perl6/TypeGraph.pm:30
      in block <unit> at t/typegraph.t:8

    t/typegraph.t ........ 
    Dubious, test returned 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
    Failed 8/8 subtests

This is with a fresh (as of minutes ago) `rakudobrew build moar`:

    $ perl6 -v
    This is perl6 version 2015.07.1-728-g9c5cb50 built on
    MoarVM version 2015.07-108-g7e9f29e

That's odd. I just built Perl 6, panda and installed p6doc right before that comment. I didn't use rakudobrew for the Perl 6 install though (git clone + Configure, make, make install), and I have a slightly different version.

You aren't still running the glr branch are you? Method 'super' not found for invocant of class 'Array' sounds to me suspiciously like a bug in that work-in-progress branch, as glr stands for Great List Refactor and the error has to do with Array. If so, you might have better luck with building the moar backed version with rakudobrew.

Edit: Sorry, just noticed where you said you built with moar. I'll try to replicate on my end and see what I get.

Hmm.

I'm using my account on the Perl 6 community dev server hack.p6c.org.

I used rakudobrew to rebuild rakudo last night:

This is perl6 version 2015.07.1-215-ge6f3602 built on MoarVM version 2015.07-108-g7e9f29e

I just ran `panda install p6doc` and it worked fine for me.

What do you get when you run `perl6 -e '$*DISTRO.say'?

Investigating...

This is on Debian Testing:

    $ perl6 -e '$*DISTRO.say'
    debian (3.16.0.4.amd.64)

Sorry, should probably take this to #perl6.

I rebuilt everything... and p6doc failed to build.

It turns out that the glr branch got merged about 5 hours ago (about the time you started commenting). I'm posting this now, before I catch up with the irc backlog, to give you a heads up, but I'd expect p6doc to be working again within a few days at the outside and quite likely by the end of today. (In the meantime you can use the web version at http://doc.perl6.org.)

This is likely a regression from the glr branch being merged into the main branch this morning. Hopefully any issues with the Perl 6 ecosystem will we worked out shortly. Actually, in the IRC channel[1], I see some module authors already making commits to adapt to the changes.

1: If you just want to lurk, or catch up on a past day, you can view the log at http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/today

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