[racket] Non-in-place installs for Racket from git

From: Asumu Takikawa (asumu at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Sun Mar 16 11:06:52 EDT 2014

On 2014-03-16 06:16:59 -0600, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> After building a Racket base installation to <dest>, use
> 
>  make local-source-catalog RACKET=<dest>/bin/racket
> 
> in the repo checkout's top-level directory.
> 
> On Mac OS X, use `local-catalog` instead of `local-source-catalog` to
> include native-code packages in the catalog.
> 
> 
> Then, if your repo checkout is <repo>, use
> 
>  <dest>/bin/raco pkg install --catalog file://<repo>/build/local/catalog \
>      --auto -i main-distribution

Thanks Matthew! This worked for me.

If anyone's curious, I've set up a github repo with some Dockerfiles to
automate building Docker images containing a Racket install:
  https://github.com/takikawa/racket-dockerfiles

Cheers,
Asumu

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