[plt-dev] Racket "make install" error when installing from svn mirror

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Wed May 26 18:51:06 EDT 2010

The short answer is that you can ignore that unless you wanted to use plot.

Robby

On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, Brian Mastenbrook <brian at mastenbrook.net> wrote:
> I checked out Racket from the github SVN mirror (http://svn.github.com/plt/racket), and received the following error from "make install" when attempting to make an in-place installation:
>
> raco setup: --- installing collections ---
> raco setup: --- post-installing collections ---
> raco setup: post-installing: help
> raco setup: post-installing: mred
> raco setup: post-installing: mysterx
> raco setup: post-installing: mzcom
> raco setup: post-installing: mzscheme
> raco setup: post-installing: racket/gui
> raco setup: done
> raco setup:
> raco setup: error: during Early Install for plot
> raco setup:   plot-preinstaller: Found an unknown source directory: #<path:.svn>
>
> make[1]: *** [install-3m] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/brian/Sources/racket-20100526/src/build'
> make: *** [install] Error 2
>
> Any ideas?
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> Brian Mastenbrook
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