[racket-dev] make gets hung up building documentation

From: Geoffrey S. Knauth (geoff at knauth.org)
Date: Sun May 4 17:27:43 EDT 2014

On May 4, 2014, at 16:44 , Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:

> That suggests to me that it is running of the of the examples in
>   /Users/gknauth/test/plt/git/plt/pkgs/racket-pkgs/racket-doc/scribblings/guide/let.scrbl
> that's causing the problem. Does this terminate:
>   $ racket -l scribblings/guide/let.scrbl

While I watched two rabbits run in circles in the backyard and observed another rabbit ignore that race condition to bound across the neighbors', no dogs in sight, I let things get good and stuck, then I pressed ^C.  Here sir, is your error trace:

$ pwd
/Users/gknauth/test/plt/git/plt/pkgs/racket-pkgs/racket-doc
$ racket -l scribblings/guide/let.scrbl
^Cuser break
  context...:
   /Users/gknauth/test/plt/git/plt/pkgs/sandbox-lib/racket/sandbox.rkt:883:2: user-eval
   /Users/gknauth/test/plt/git/plt/pkgs/scribble-pkgs/scribble-lib/scribble/eval.rkt:399:0: do-plain-eval
   /Users/gknauth/test/plt/git/plt/pkgs/scribble-pkgs/scribble-lib/scribble/eval.rkt:261:2
   /Users/gknauth/test/plt/git/plt/pkgs/scribble-pkgs/scribble-lib/scribble/eval.rkt:550:0: do-titled-interaction
   /Users/gknauth/test/plt/git/plt/pkgs/racket-pkgs/racket-doc/scribblings/guide/let.scrbl: [running body]



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