Obtaining and building Parrot and Rakudo Perl

$ svn checkout https://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk parrot
$ cd parrot
$ perl Configure.pl
$ make                      # build parrot, takes a few minutes (*)
$ make perl6

# run a Perl 6 program
$ ./perl6 hello.pl

# run test suites
$ cd languages/perl6
$ make test                 # local build test suite
$ make spectest             # run official test suite

* I recommend avoiding "make install".