At Sun, 01 Dec 2013 03:31:32 +0100, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > On 11/25/13 05:10, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > > Hi. I'm compiling racket 6 (from the git branch "release") on OpenBSD. > > > > The configure script includes the options "enable-gracket" and > > "enable-docs" but I don't see the gracket binary and the docs installed > > after the installation. Someone forgot remove the options or these are > > usefull for something?. > > > > Another question. Racket 5.3 needs gtk, cairo, pango, gtkglext and so > > forth. What are the dependencies of racket core now?. > > > > Nobody?
Sorry that I missed your message. These `--enable-docs` and `--enable-gracket` options are not as useful as before, but I haven't sorted out whether they're completely useless, and so they're still there. For example, `--disable-gracket` would avoid building the `gracket` helper executable that goes in "lib" --- but, then, installing any package with a `gracket`-based executable won't work right. The new way to avoid documentation is to just not install any documentation packages (at the Racket level). Similarly, aside from the `gracket` helper executable, avoid graphics and GUI dependencies by not installing graphics and GUI packages (at the Racket level). > I'm asking because I would like to add support for more OpenBSD > platforms to racket. If I could to compile racket without the > dependencies, just with a C compiler, it will help me a lot. > > I'm not interested in to give support to the GUI on some platforms > because probably nobody will run drracket on a headless computer :) . > And probably cairo or gtk will have problems on some old platforms, so > the package won't compile because doesn't have the dependencies. > > So, basically I'm asking if racket 6 (and raco pkg) can work correctly > without gtk, cairo, pango and others deps. Obviously raco can't generate > docs but this isn't important. Any help?. A minimal Racket build doesn't depend on anything except standard tools, like `make` and a compiler, although it will use "libiconv" when available, and it will also use a pre-built "libffi" if available (or build one, otherwise). Libraries such as gtk, cairo, and pango are now dependencies of the "gui" and "draw" packages. (The `gracket` executable that is put in the "lib" directory doesn't depend on them.) Documentation builds depend on "libsqlite3". _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev