Eli Barzilay <[email protected]> writes: > Racket version 5.0.1 is now available from ... > Feedback Welcome,
I tried to build Racket from the racket-5.0.1-src-unix.tgz distribution file on a amd64 Ubuntu 10.4 (Lucid) system. Following the instruction in the README file I try building and find: ../../../racket/gc/../../utils/nicear /home/barry/work/plt-5.0.1/src/build/lt/libtool --mode=link --tag=CC gcc -release 5.0.1 -rpath /lib -pthread -ldl -lm -ldl -lm -rdynamic -o ../libmzgc.la alloc.lo reclaim.lo allchblk.lo misc.lo mach_dep.lo mach_dep1.lo os_dep.lo mark_rts.lo headers.lo mark.lo obj_map.lo blacklst.lo finalize.lo new_hblk.lo dbg_mlc.lo malloc.lo stubborn.lo checksums.lo pthread_support.lo pthread_stop_world.lo darwin_stop_world.lo typd_mlc.lo ptr_chck.lo mallocx.lo gcj_mlc.lo specific.lo gc_dlopen.lo backgraph.lo win32_threads.lo thread_local_alloc.lo openbsd_stop_world.lo dyn_load.lo make[6]: ../../../racket/gc/../../utils/nicear: Command not found There is no nicear file in the distribution or any rule to create it, so I created a src/utils directory and put in it a file named nicer: #! /bin/sh "$@" This was also need to build racket-5.0 but not previous PLT versions. Now things fail with: make[7]: Entering directory `/home/barry/work/plt-5.0.1/src/build/foreign' cd libffi; make libffi_convenience.la cd: 1: can't cd to libffi There is no libffi directory anywhere in the distribution. I do have libffi (libffi.so.5.0.10) installed as part of Ubuntu. I get the impression that nobody tried to build Racket from the distribution on a vanilla Linux system. -- Barry Fishman _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
