Downloading and building Parrot and Rakudo Perl

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

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

# run test suites
$ cd languages/perl6
$ make test                  # local build test suite
$ make spectest_regression   # run selected official tests

* We recommend avoiding "make install".