[racket-dev] build problems on plt/release branch?
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> Ok, will do. Will report back when the build completes.
Followup: wow. Ok, so I figured out what was going on, sorta. Let me
show it just in case anyone else encounters something this weird.
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So I first tried making my repository clean by doing "git clean -fdx",
which is supposed to return the repository to its pristine state.
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155-99-188-246:collects dyoo$ git clean -fdx
Removing tmp/
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The repository should be clean now. Just out of a whim, I tried the
command again:
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155-99-188-246:collects dyoo$ git clean -fdx
Removing tmp/
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... wait. What in the world? Why is it still there? Why isn't tmp
actually being deleted?
And what's in there?
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155-99-188-246:collects dyoo$ cd tmp
155-99-188-246:tmp dyoo$ ls
racket
155-99-188-246:tmp dyoo$ cd racket
155-99-188-246:tmp dyoo$ ls -a
.git/ GRacket.app/ bin/ man/
.gitattributes PLT Games.app/ collects/ src/
.gitignore README doc/
.mailmap SirMail.app/ include/
DrRacket.app/ Slideshow.app/ lib/
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... What?!!
Somehow, I had an extra copy of the entire repository in collects/tmp.
And 'git clean -fdx' doesn't remove things that look like git
repositories.
I removed the erroneous "collects/tmp" from my repository, and then
rebuilt the software with no problems.
My apologies to everyone for calling wolf. I still have no idea where
this collects/tmp thing came from in the first place, but hopefully no
one else has encountered this.