[racket-dev] package-system update

From: Togan Muftuoglu (toganm at opensuse.org)
Date: Fri Jul 19 01:37:13 EDT 2013

>>>>> On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 17:07:38 -0600, Matthew Flatt <mflatt-sDh8Nw2yj/+Vc3sceRu5cw at public.gmane.org> said:

    Matthew> At Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:48:10 +0200, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
    >> 1. configure and Makefile should allow docdir parameter given at as an
    >> arg [...]
    >> 
    >> 2. collects path should be allowed for another location ie. [...]

    Matthew> I'll work on those.

    Thanks
    
    >> Finally currently build system can't complete the install stage
    >> 
    >> ./racketcgc -cu "./collects-path.rkt" \
    >> "/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/racket-5.6.0-0.x86_64/usr/lib64/racket/starter"
    >> \ /usr/lib64/racket/collects

    Matthew> Is this from a generated Makefile, or it is from some other
    Matthew> script?

   That is from the generated Makefile. I use the racket/src/configure to
   generate the Makefile

    
    Matthew> The "collects-path.rkt" script now expects a second path, with is
    Matthew> the configuration directory path to embed in the executable.

    Is it necessary the configuration directory path should be embed in the
    executable. Why can't it be set at load time similar to Emacs init file
    concept



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