Testing for the v8.14 release

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Testing for the v8.14 release
  (using the v8.13.900 release candidate build)

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Be sure to finish your testing by the 22nd. Otherwise the release
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The checklist page is at:
     https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki/Release-Checklist-8.14

Release candidates are at:
     https://pre-release.racket-lang.org

Please use these installers (or source bundles) -- don't test from
your own git clone (don't test the `master' branch by mistake!).
To get the tests, you can do this:

  cd ...racket-root...
  ./bin/raco pkg install -i --auto main-distribution-test
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It looks to me like the behavior of our configure script has changed, in that it appears that the default installation prefix is now /usr/local/racket, rather than the root of the build tree. I confirmed this by re-running configure on the 8.13 release, which defaults to an in-place install.

I'm assuming this is deliberate. If so, perhaps a bullet in the release notes such as this?

  • Building from source defaults to installing in /usr/local/racket, rather than to an in-place-build.

(Or maybe this should be to "a platform-specific location" instead?)

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I should have added that I'm using the Source + built packages bundle (chosen randomly), compiling on Debian.

4

Also, it seems like this could potentially impact our wonderful hard-working OS-specific rebundlers, should we send individual emails to them/you ?

5

There's a failure on GHA when the snapshot (8.14) is used, related to GLIBC not found

https://github.com/racket/gui/actions/runs/10064064909/job/27820206911?pr=333#step:4:25

Is it related to any changes in 8.14?

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I'm super-not-familiar with the github actions builds. I also have no idea whether there's been a change to the glibc version required. (So... why am I responding to this message? Ah well.) Is there a history for this action, and can we see which versions succeed and fail?

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Oh, actually this is probably not related to 8.14, since a previous build on GHA (https://github.com/racket/gui/actions/runs/10050832199/job/27779413399) is also on 8.14, and it built fine.

Must be something else. Sorry for the noise!

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The change is not intentional. I have an idea why it might have
happened, and I'll investigate more.

I've been trying to run the Unix installer test, but a combination of
travel and a planned power outage at Utah slowed that down. It's
currently running, and I hope it detects the problem, too!