>> I suggest building in a build/ directory as described in src/README. There's >> already a .gitignore directive to ignore that directory.
I had a similar confusion a week ago, building Racket for the first time ever, and got an answer on #racket. I was following Joe Gibbs Politz's recent Racket blog post (http://blog.racket-lang.org/2012/11/tutorial-contributing-to-racket.html), which doesn't suggest this. The blog post is otherwise awesome. So awesome that it lulled me into not checking src/README. So I wanted to thank Joe for writing this (seriously it was amazingly helpful), and also suggest he update with this suggestion? Ex: $ cd plt/src $ mkdir build $ cd build $ ../configure $ make Unfortunately I don't have his email, so I hope he'll read this or perhaps someone here can forward this to him. p.s. I also discovered that if you have PLTCOLLECTS set (for example to a release build of Racket), the build's "copying collections" step copies from _there_. It turns out I didn't need PLTCOLLECTS at all, so I simply deleted that env var. But it was weird. _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
