At Mon, 3 Jan 2011 14:55:05 -0500, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Robby Findler > <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: > > > > Or maybe there is another possible solution that involves changing how > > the distribution and or the docs build works? > > I think the conventional solution is for `make install' to do much > less work than it current does. In "normal" Make-built software, > `make' does all of the compilation, and `make install' just does the > copying. That way, `make install' wouldn't be doing things like > reading preferences and creating the '.racket' directory.
Well, moving work from `make install' to `make' does nothing in itself. What you're suggesting is that we change what `make install' produces. In particular, I think you're suggesting that no user-specific actions take place as a result of a build and install. That change sounds ok to me, and it can be accomplished by passing `--no-user' to `raco setup' during `make install'. Unless anyone objects, I'll push that change soon. _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev