I don't think we want to actually deploy _that_ DrRacket on a desktop (one where the construction of the rendered images happens during startup).
(But I don't see a good solution to this problem.) Robby On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > We don't own some of them, and some have no maintainer. The first is > also an indication of a lost feature: being able to compile racket on > a typical server and deploy on a desktop. > > On 2012-01-13, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <sa...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: >>> Yesterday, Neil Toronto wrote: >>>> On 01/12/2012 12:22 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: >>>> >> Is there a way to reliably get the "compiled" directory path during >>>> >> expansion, and then load files from it at runtime? Can I ensure that >>>> >> .PNG files are distributed automatically? >>>> > >>>> > Putting other stuff in compiled directories would probably complicate >>>> > distributions (of both kinds), so the compile-to-bytestring is really >>>> > better. (One possible thing to keep in mind is to avoid compilation >>>> > relying on having a display.) >>>> >>>> Just to double-check: ever since the big GUI rewrite, I can use >>>> racket/draw without needing a display, right? >>> >>> And this broke the build on three machines -- two of them are servers, >>> and one is a PPC machine that wasn't for anything except for the >>> builds in a long time. >>> >>> raco setup: in images >>> ffi-lib: couldn't open "libcairo.so.2" (libcairo.so.2: cannot open >>> shared object file: No such file or directory) >>> >>> One possible way out: make it fall back to the dynamic case when >>> there's no cairo present. The zo files in the distribution are all >>> from the main machine which does have cairo installed. (That would >>> further bogosify a `compiled-' prefix though.) >> >> I think we should just install cairo on these machines -- we shouldn't >> be building on machines where we couldn't run Racket effectively. >> -- >> sam th >> sa...@ccs.neu.edu >> > > > -- > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: > http://www.barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! > > _________________________ > Racket Developers list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
