The documentation directory and collection directory should be configurable, now.
Besides starting from the git repository, you could also try out the new "source" snapshot: http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/snapshots/ The label on the "Source" snapshots really should say something like "kernel in source form, plus pre-built packages and documentation". The "Minimal Racket" variant doesn't have any packages, but it has the core collections pre-built, and installing a package from the main distribution gets the package in pre-built form from the snapshot site. I tried out the "Racket | Source" version, which took about one minute to download (83 MB), about 3-4 minutes for `configure' plus `make', and about 40 seconds for `make install'. After `make install', DrRacket was ready to go, and all documentation (for the main distribution) was available. _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev