Ideally you could just cherry-pick Matthew's change as a patch and apply that during the build of the deb until the next official Racket release is made.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_build_toolchain#Patch_systems Cheers, Sam On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 17:52, Jon Rafkind <rafk...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: > I can make libgtkglext1 a dependency, thats easy. > > I'm not sure where the fix would go on the PPA. If it goes into the normal > 'racket' channel then there will be beta stuff in there, so it won't be > directly in > sync with the release. > > I could make a new channel but I'm not sure what it would be called. There is > a 'racket nightly' thing I think but I don't have a system set up to actually > build and upload a new .deb each night. > > Do you need this fix to be installed on a bunch of different computers (and > thus need the PPA to do it)? > > On 10/17/2011 06:45 PM, Todd O'Bryan wrote: >> Jon Rafkind, >> >> Any chance that you might put a version with Matthew's fix on the PPA >> site? Also, could you make libgtkglext1 a dependency of the install so >> that the OpenGL-dependent games in plt-games work? >> >> (I wish I knew how .debs work so I could help with this instead of >> just asking for stuff. I've spent probably 20-30 hours total over 3 or >> 4 times trying to figure it out, and each time I give up after a >> wasted day. By the time I go back and try to do it again, I've >> forgotten whatever it was I might have learned and had to start all >> over again.) >> >> Todd >> >> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: >>> It seems that `racket/gui' is trying to freeze and thaw window updates >>> before the canvas is mapped. The relevant Gdk window changes when the >>> canvas is mapped, which means that Gdk and `racket/gui' end up with >>> different opinions on the freeze/thaw state of the canvas. >>> >>> I've pushed a repair to fix freeze/thaw requests based on the canvas's >>> mapped state, which hopefully fixes the problem that you're seeing. >>> >>> _________________________________________________ >>> For list-related administrative tasks: >>> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users >>> >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
