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

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 21 18:01:33 EST 2012

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:51 PM, SF <sf.rom17 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Sean Reque wrote:
>> I'm getting this error on the latest release of Racket (5.2) on Windows just
>> using vanilla Racket and running my program. The exact message is:
>>
>> exception raised by error display handler: normalize-path: #<path:c:/var>
>> (within the input path) is not a directory or does not exist; original exception
>> raised: ...
>
> I've gotten the same error multiple times recently, for various
> original exceptions. Unfortunately I can't remember how to reproduce
> them.

This is a bug that shows up in a number of places, which was recently
(we believe) fixed.  The next release (or the nightly build [1])
should both avoid this bug.

[1] http://pre.racket-lang.org/installers/
-- 
sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu

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