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

From: Marijn (hkBst at gentoo.org)
Date: Mon Nov 12 04:44:44 EST 2012

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On 11-11-12 18:06, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> Yesterday, Neil Toronto wrote:
>> On 11/09/2012 08:33 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
>>> 
>>> Marijn: if this is a problem, you might get around it by
>>> avoiding the documentation build, but maybe not -- I think that
>>> the icon build also requires it.
>> 
>> Anything that renders icons at compile time needs Cairo. That 
>> includes DrRacket, the macro stepper, algebraic stepper, 
>> optimization coach, etc.
> 
> So in case Marijn cares: there might be hope for using the
> -textual distribution...

It was my understanding that the textual distribution results in
artefacts that can similarly be obtained by building the ``normal''
distribution but configuring it specifically ``without X''. By
configuring ``without X'' in particular DrRacket doesn't get built, so
there's no problem there.

Marijn
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