For those who build from the Racket git repository but don't subscribe to the dev mailing list: Beware that the repository layout is about to change.
We are reorganizing the current Racket distribution into packages. When the repository changes, the top level of the repository will contain the following: * "racket" --- contains a pared-back version of the current repository, roughly. You could go into this directory, then into "src", and then use `configure', `make', and `make install' as usual. But you won't get DrRacket, or lots of other things. Instead, you'll get enough Racket to run `raco pkg' that could be used to install everything else. Even within this "racket" directory, there is some shuffling of files. Most notably, the "collects" directory has moved under "lib". * "pkgs" --- everything else in the current repository, but organized into packages. This organization is a first cut, and there will be lots of movement within this directory in the coming days and weeks. * "Makefile" --- a makefile to help you build Racket with all the usual packages. If you just type `make' in the top-level directory, you end up with a build in the "racket" subdirectory that includes DrRacket, etc. It builds the code in "racket" and then links in all the packages from "pkgs". * "README.txt" --- as you'd expect. * "INSTALL.txt" --- as you'd expect. See "README.txt" and "INSTALL.txt" for more information, but there are lots of detail that you can ignore. The main detail that you can't ignore is that an in-place build ends up in a "racket" directory instead of the immediate repository directory. This first cut may work out, or we may change again, so expect further changes. Please pardon our dust as we remodel. Longer term, the "racket" directory may move to its own "racket-core" repository, and the packages in "pkgs" may move to multiple other repositories. If so, we expect that to happen months from now, not within days or weeks. ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
