[racket-dev] Caching rendered icons

We don't own some of them, and some have no maintainer.  The first is
also an indication of a lost feature: being able to compile racket on
a typical server and deploy on a desktop.

On 2012-01-13, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> 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
>


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