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

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Tue Feb 7 15:59:06 EST 2012

Two hours ago, Neil Toronto wrote:
> 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

Are you using the nightly build?  If so, that path is where the build
happens, so it's probably a result of some bad macro that expands to
the path.  As seen in the last flood of PRs, the build should
eventually be completely free of such hard-wired paths, and IIRC, all
3rd-party packaging systems will barf on seeing them.

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