[racket-dev] find-secs error while building 5.3.2 (fwd)

Does date-ticks possibly needs to cope with find-seconds failing to find
the seconds?

Robby


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Neil Toronto <neil.toronto at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 02/06/2013 02:14 PM, Jimmy Olgeni wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Jimmy Olgeni wrote:
>>
>>  The problem is that, due to this error, "make install" does not
>>> complete and I cannot get a repeatable build for the package, but
>>> maybe I can find a way to exclude the plot docs build.
>>>
>>> Does the weird date come from the docs source?
>>>
>>
>> I found it in collects/plot/tests/low-level-**tests.rkt. I'll look for a
>> way around :)
>>
>
> Those are tests, which aren't run during setup. Besides that, there's no
> (find-seconds 0 0 0 1 5 1970) in "low-level-tests.rkt".
>
> I scanned through the plot documentation and found this, though:
>
>   (parameterize ([plot-x-label      "Near x axis"]
>                  [plot-y-label      "Near y axis"]
>                  [plot-z-label      "Near z axis"]
>                  [plot-x-ticks      (date-ticks)]
>                  [plot-y-ticks      (time-ticks)]
>                  [plot-z-ticks      (fraction-ticks)]
>                  [plot-x-far-label  "Far x axis"]
>                  [plot-y-far-label  "Far y axis"]
>                  [plot-z-far-label  "Far z axis"]
>                  [plot-x-far-ticks  (linear-ticks)]
>                  [plot-y-far-ticks  (currency-ticks)]
>                  [plot-z-far-ticks  (log-ticks #:base 2)])
>     (plot3d (lines3d '(#(1 1 1) #(40000000 4 4)) #:style 'transparent)
>             #:angle 45 #:altitude 50
>             #:title "Axis Names and Tick Locations"))
>
> One of the tick labels on the near x axis is "1970-05". I don't remember
> exactly how the tick layout and formatting code works, but it's very
> possible that it uses `find-seconds' with the arguments 0 0 0 1 5 1970 to
> position that label.
>
> BTW, it's not January 5, but May 1. Is that a valid date on your machine?
> Also, does either (find-seconds 0 0 0 1 5 1970 #f) or (find-seconds 0 0 0 1
> 5 1970 #t) fail in Racket?
>
> Neil ⊥
>
>
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