[racket] racket 6.0 build for debian?

From: Robby Findler (robby at racket-lang.org)
Date: Tue Mar 4 13:26:18 EST 2014

Is Wheezy the version of Debian we are talking about?

http://plt.eecs.northwestern.edu/snapshots/

Robby



On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Eric Dong <yd2dong at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> IDK though, Debian stable is very popular. I would suggest somebody should
> build a package for it and upload it to racket-lang.org
>
>
> On Tuesday, March 4, 2014, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
>> At Mon, 3 Mar 2014 23:19:47 -0800, John Clements wrote:
>> > I’d like to run racket 6 on a 64-bit Debian 7 VPS (that I have with
>> linode).
>> > It appears to me that our pre-built binaries rely on libc 2.14, and
>> that the
>> > current stable Debian (I know, I know) comes with libc 2.13.  Am I
>> reading the
>> > error messages correctly?
>> >
>> > My next step is to try to built it from source, but it’ll be tricky,
>> because
>> > this machine doesn’t have very much ram. CPUS=1 is probably my friend
>> here.
>>
>> Building some source is probably not so bad if you use the "source +
>> built packages" distribution. Then, you're justing building the C core,
>> and all the Racket code and documentation is pre-built.
>>
>> For a smaller install, try the Minimal Racket "source + built packages"
>> distribution, then install the packages that you need. Again, the
>> packages should install in built form, so installation should be quick.
>>
>>
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