Bug#1002496: perl6-readline: Strange files under /usr/lib/perl6/vendor/dist?

[Dominique Dumont]

Hi

On Thursday, 23 December 2021 10:19:50 CET Chris Lamb wrote:
> The latest version of perl6-readline seems to ship a number of
> interesting-looking files under /usr/lib/perl6/vendor, such as:
> 
>   /usr/lib/perl6/vendor/dist/A8475E6287F45455F9F68569C07ADC25AA5BEFDF
> 
> Is this some kind of .pyc equivalent for Perl 6? Either way, I'd love
> to know more as these files appear to be unreproducible.

Yes, theses are Raku modules pre-compiled at build time.

A more detailed explanation is provided on Debian wiki:

https://wiki.debian.org/Perl6PreCompProposal

I don't really know why the pre-compilation is not reproducible.

As a matter of fact, neither rakudo, nqp or moarvm are reproducible. I've 
never found the time or energy to find why.

All the best

Dod