[racket-dev] sudo make install

See also

 http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2010-January/037610.html

Like Eli, I remember that we've discussed this before, but I haven't
been able to track down the earlier discussion, yet...

At Mon, 3 Jan 2011 14:17:42 -0700, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> Yes, unless you run `raco setup' later.
> 
> At Mon, 3 Jan 2011 15:15:42 -0600, Robby Findler wrote:
> > Would this mean that the handin server docs don't get built?
> > 
> > Robby
> > 
> > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> > > At Mon, 3 Jan 2011 14:55:05 -0500, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> > >> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Robby Findler
> > >> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > Or maybe there is another possible solution that involves changing how
> > >> > the distribution and or the docs build works?
> > >>
> > >> I think the conventional solution is for `make install' to do much
> > >> less work than it current does.  In "normal" Make-built software,
> > >> `make' does all of the compilation, and `make install' just does the
> > >> copying.  That way, `make install' wouldn't be doing things like
> > >> reading preferences and creating the '.racket' directory.
> > >
> > > Well, moving work from `make install' to `make' does nothing in itself.
> > > What you're suggesting is that we change what `make install' produces.
> > >
> > > In particular, I think you're suggesting that no user-specific actions
> > > take place as a result of a build and install. That change sounds ok to
> > > me, and it can be accomplished by passing `--no-user' to `raco setup'
> > > during `make install'.
> > >
> > > Unless anyone objects, I'll push that change soon.
> > >
> > >
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