Racket distro packagers: please try building from a snapshot

[LiberalArtist]

@tgbugs

I'm getting the following error when using my usual ebuild on gentoo. The reason is because we traditionally build cgc-core first, and that option is now gone due to the transition to zuo. Is there an equivalent way to get the same results as the old make cgc-core?

I don't know exactly what cgc-core is exactly, but for Guix we do totally separate builds from racket-vm-cgc -> racket-vm-bc -> chez-scheme-for-racket -> racket-vm-cs, where vm signifies minimal Racket but without the base and racket-lib packages installed. All that can be done with just configure and make in the src directory. I've got Zuo-ified build definitions at gnu/packages/racket.scm · 271fc33 · Philip McGrath / guix-patches · GitLab and gnu/packages/chez.scm · 271fc33 · Philip McGrath / guix-patches · GitLab, if they help. (I'll also check again with a more recent commit.)

@benknoble

For the record:

• Based on homebrew-cask/racket.rb at master · Homebrew/homebrew-cask · GitHub, I don't think Homebrew builds from source for the cask but rather uses the published DMG
• The formula minimal-racket is bottled (built from source) according to homebrew-core/minimal-racket.rb at master · Homebrew/homebrew-core · GitHub.

It's unclear who usually updates either, but there are some names common between the history of the two.

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I was going to try building the snapshot via Homebrew to see what happened, but I don't have the time and expertise at the moment, so this is my "next best contribution."

It would be good to figure out the Homebrew issue from Minimal-racket is very slow before installing compiler-lib - #20 by LiberalArtist. It looked to me like it wasn't finding compiled files in the lib directory from a Unix-style install without --enable-sharezo.