[racket-dev] Racket doesn't compile without cairo

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Sun Nov 11 12:06:24 EST 2012

Yesterday, Neil Toronto wrote:
> On 11/09/2012 08:33 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> >
> > Marijn: if this is a problem, you might get around it by avoiding
> > the documentation build, but maybe not -- I think that the icon
> > build also requires it.
> 
> Anything that renders icons at compile time needs Cairo. That
> includes DrRacket, the macro stepper, algebraic stepper,
> optimization coach, etc.

So in case Marijn cares: there might be hope for using the -textual
distribution...

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