Another user just discovered and reported the first error. We're working on that one.
I don't know about the second, but I will look into it and get back to you if no one else does. Jay On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Barry Fishman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://teammccarthy.org/jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
