[racket-dev] making DrRacket.app

Repairs pushed --- thanks for the report!

At Mon, 8 Jul 2013 09:39:27 -0600, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> Offhand, I see one problem: `make' creates links with absolute paths to
> the packages in "pkgs". I'll fix that and check for other problems.
> 
> It's possible that
> 
>   make pkg-links
> 
> in the new place will fix your problem.
> 
> If not, you may have to move before building, or try a snapshot from
> 
>   http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/snapshots/
> 
> 
> At Mon, 8 Jul 2013 10:28:12 -0500, "Geoffrey S. Knauth" wrote:
> > I admit I have not built DrRacket in a couple of months.  I just did a git 
> > pull, rebuilt ("make"), and now if I open:
> > 
> >   ~/test/plt/git/plt/racket/DrRacket.app
> > 
> > it runs, but if I move the racket directory to where I used to put it 
> > (/usr/local) and try running:
> > 
> >   /usr/local/racket/DrRacket.app
> > 
> > it doesn't start up.  I'm guessing this happened because "make" is the same 
> as 
> > "make in-place" and I may have some kind of hard-coded path now in the 
> build.  
> > Should I have built with a prefix /usr/local ("--prefix=/usr/local" ?).  I 
> > want "racket" directory built to end up in /usr/local .
> > 
> > I used to do "make" and then "make install".  In between I would move 
> > /usr/local/racket to /usr/local/racket-old in case something went wrong and I 
> > needed to go back to the last successful build.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Geoff
> 
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