[racket] Racket on Centos?

For now, I've added a Fedora snapshot build here:

http://plt.eecs.northwestern.edu/snapshots/

Robby


On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:21 PM, Greg Hendershott
<greghendershott at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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