[racket-dev] Racket doesn't compile without cairo

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 9 06:35:38 EST 2012

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Marijn <hkBst at gentoo.org> wrote:
> I've had a report that building racket without X doesn't work if cairo
> is not installed. Presumably in this mode it should not need cairo, right?

Libraries like `racket/draw` and `slideshow/pict` don't need X -- they
can produce PDFs or PNGs or other formats, but they do rely on cairo.
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sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu

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