[racket] Errors trying to compile Racket 5.1.1 on Linux (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

From: William Turtle (wt9 at cs.brown.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 1 15:31:04 EDT 2011

After you type `../configure' at the command-prompt, make sure that when
you type `echo $?' at the prompt, it prints 0, indicating a successful
configuration. After that, could you type `ls' and tell me what it says?

Bill T.

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 03:07:39PM -0400, Keith Frost wrote:
> ### I do:
> cd racket-5.1.1/src
> mkdir build
> cd build
> ../configure
> make
> 
> ### and I see:
> 
> make 3m
> make[1]: Entering directory '/home/kfrost/racket-5.1.1/src/build'
> cd racket; make 3m
> /bin/sh: line 0: cd: racket: No such file or directory
> make[2[: Entering directory '/home/kfrost/racket-5.1.1/src/build'
> cd racket; make 3m
> /bin/sh: line 0: cd: racket: No such file or directory
> 
> ### Repeated over 1000 times (with the int next to make incremented
> each time)...
> ### Ending with a stack of Error 2 messages.
> 
> # Has anyone else seen this?  What's wrong?
> # Thanks.
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