[racket] file-or-directory-modify-seconds usage bug

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 20 10:25:53 EDT 2010

`make install' for a non-in-place build should work right, now.

I still need to work on `raco setup' so that it doesn't give this kind
of internal error when something goes wrong with the configuration.

At Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:28:03 -0700, synx wrote:
> raco setup:   file-or-directory-modify-seconds: expects type <exact
> integer or #f> as 2nd argument, given: +inf.0; other arguments were:
> #<path:/.../share/racket/doc/gl-board-game/stamp.sxref>
> 
> Just noticed this error during install of the latest git. Something
> during installation is attempting to set the modified time of the file
> to infinitely far in the future. So either
> file-or-directory-modify-seconds has to be adjusted to set modified time
> to the highest possible number in such cases, or the code calling that
> has to make sure it  passes a real, finite integer to the procedure.
> 
> My git repository is in /home/racket/git ($GIT). It's attempting to
> install in /var/opt/racket ($PREFIX). I'm running my little compilation
> script in the ordinary place: $GIT/build. I'm using
> $GIT/build/temp-install as a DESTDIR. (Then as root I'll just copy the
> files over to /var/opt/racket but I haven't got that far yet.)
> 
> The two files that raised the error were in $DESTDIR$PREFIX/$COLLECTS:
> 
> .../lib/racket/collects/games/gl-board-game/gl-board-game.scrbl
> .../lib/racket/collects/sgl/scribblings/sgl.scrbl
> 
> --
> 
> I was also seeing a lot of errors like this:
> raco setup: ERROR: games/doors doors.rkt: default-load-handler: cannot
> open input file: "/home/racket/git/collects/sgl/gl-info.rkt" (No such
> file or directory; errno=2)
> 
> Which is pretty odd, because gl-info.rkt is only created in
> $DESTDIR/$PREFIX/$COLLECTS/sgl/ not in $GIT/$COLLECTS. Why it would be
> requiring the existence of a generated file in the source directory,
> that doesn't ever get modified during the build process, I can only
> think it must be a bug somewhere.
> 
> Since it's so big, I'll reply with the full make.log for moderators to
> approve at their leisure.
> 
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