[racket-dev] Is anybody else getting this error?

Neil Toronto <neil.toronto at ...> writes:

> 
> This is from the latest release. On Redex errors and some Typed Racket 
> errors (so far), I get something like
> 
> exception raised by error display handler: normalize-path: 
> #<path:/var/tmp/racket> (within the input path) is not a directory or 
> does not exist; original exception raised: reduction-relation: before 
> underscore must be either a non-terminal or a built-in pattern, found 1 
> in b_1
> 
> The problem isn't the Redex error I'm getting - I know how to fix that - 
> but that it's expecting a "/var/tmp/racket" directory to exist.
> 
> Obviously I could create this directory, but I wanted to bring it up 
> here first. It appears that some collects are either making an 
> assumption they shouldn't be making, or they rely on a badly behaved 
> function that creates temporary files. (I've verified that 
> `make-temporary-file' is working.)
> 
> Neil ⊥
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I'm getting this error on the latest release of Racket (5.2) on Windows just 
using vanilla Racket and running my program. The exact message is:

exception raised by error display handler: normalize-path: #<path:c:/var> 
(within the input path) is not a directory or does not exist; original exception 
raised: ...