[racket] Racket on Centos?

Up through version 5.3.6 there was a Fedora build of Racket, and as of
a couple years ago I used it on "Amazon Linux" (which IIUC is ~=
CentOS). I vaguely recall needing to symlink one .so to the name
Racket expected, but otherwise I don't remember any problems.

(Although I'm not sure why Racket dropped the Fedora build after
5.3.6, it's been n/a for me because more recently, when I've made an
Amazon EC2 instance or Digital Ocean droplet, it's been fine for my
simple purposes to use Ubuntu.)

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 12:45 AM, George Neuner <gneuner2 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am looking at a possible deployment on a Centos based cloud VM and I won't
> have a compiler available to build Racket locally.  Is there a pre-made
> distribution (preferably 6.0.1) that runs on Centos 6 or 7?
>
> If not, how hard would it be to compile Racket on a separate Centos machine
> and then install it to the cloud VPS?  [He asks naively never having built
> Racket before.]
>
> Thanks,
> George
>
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