[racket-dev] sporadic failure when building PLaneT docs

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Fri Aug 19 13:50:39 EDT 2011

Three hours ago, Robby Findler wrote:
> 
> I'm not seeing anything when looking at your code that looks
> suspicious, but I'm not sure of the ins and outs of the sandbox
> protocols so I'm not sure who to blame here (well, probably the
> sandbox needs to be blamed since the error is not illuminating, but
> there may be other problems that that error is masking).
> 
> One difference that I notice is that scribble's make-base-eval doesn't
> create the evaluator in the same way your code does; it uses a
> different argument to make-evaluator that puts the evaluator into a
> different mode somehow. That could be relevant.
> 
> Maybe Eli can say more?

I have no idea what the problem is, or how to get it without involving
planet.

One thing that might help: remove the `sandbox-error-output' parameter
which can swallow some other error.

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