[racket-dev] Caching rendered icons

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> Yesterday, Neil Toronto wrote:
>> On 01/12/2012 12:22 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
>> >> Is there a way to reliably get the "compiled" directory path during
>> >> expansion, and then load files from it at runtime? Can I ensure that
>> >> .PNG files are distributed automatically?
>> >
>> > Putting other stuff in compiled directories would probably complicate
>> > distributions (of both kinds), so the compile-to-bytestring is really
>> > better.  (One possible thing to keep in mind is to avoid compilation
>> > relying on having a display.)
>>
>> Just to double-check: ever since the big GUI rewrite, I can use
>> racket/draw without needing a display, right?
>
> And this broke the build on three machines -- two of them are servers,
> and one is a PPC machine that wasn't for anything except for the
> builds in a long time.
>
>  raco setup:  in images
>  ffi-lib: couldn't open "libcairo.so.2" (libcairo.so.2: cannot open
>  shared object file: No such file or directory)
>
> One possible way out: make it fall back to the dynamic case when
> there's no cairo present.  The zo files in the distribution are all
> from the main machine which does have cairo installed.  (That would
> further bogosify a `compiled-' prefix though.)

I think we should just install cairo on these machines -- we shouldn't
be building on machines where we couldn't run Racket effectively.
-- 
sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu