-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09-11-12 16:33, Eli Barzilay wrote: > Four hours ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Marijn <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I've had a report that building racket without X doesn't work >>> if cairo is not installed. Presumably in this mode it should >>> not need cairo, right? >> >> Libraries like `racket/draw` and `slideshow/pict` don't need X >> -- they can produce PDFs or PNGs or other formats, but they do >> rely on cairo. > > IIUC, Marijn is talking about the required libraries for compiling > Racket, and since cairo is used in the doc build, it is needed, > which (at least in the Fedora package I have) means that you also > need to have X installed.
Indeed I am inquiring after the libraries required for compiling Racket. On Gentoo, cairo can be configured ``without X'' (whether X is installed or not), so if cairo is really needed for building ``without X'' it is no problem to specify that. So my question is then, is cairo really needed for compiling the textual part of Racket or is it a dependency that slipped in by accident? > Marijn: if this is a problem, you might get around it by avoiding > the documentation build, but maybe not -- I think that the icon > build also requires it. It's not a problem. I'm trying to correct a user-reported error in the dependencies of the Gentoo Racket package. If I made a wrong inference/assumption about when cairo is needed, then I want to correct that. My initial thought though, was that it was an inadvertent dependency for the textual part. Marijn -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlCgxQoACgkQp/VmCx0OL2yMtgCdGyX0eijd7eM4ypYvza1vhiEu 8s8An1srr12dRMJstmPJ7+oEL3LKI0Gf =KqA/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
