[racket-dev] make gets hung up building documentation

From: Geoffrey S. Knauth (geoff at knauth.org)
Date: Sun May 4 18:13:34 EDT 2014

I'm happy to insert printfs in my tree if you tell me where.  --Geoff

On May 4, 2014, at 17:33 , Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:

> thanks. Unfortunately I cannot reproduce this on my machine but the thing I would do if I could would be to start putting printfs in to try to find a smaller programs that gets stuck. 
> 
> Robby
> 
> On Sunday, May 4, 2014, Geoffrey S. Knauth <geoff at knauth.org> wrote:
> On May 4, 2014, at 16:44 , Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> 
> > That suggests to me that it is running of the of the examples in
> >   /Users/gknauth/test/plt/git/plt/pkgs/racket-pkgs/racket-doc/scribblings/guide/let.scrbl
> > that's causing the problem. Does this terminate:
> >   $ racket -l scribblings/guide/let.scrbl
> 
> While I watched two rabbits run in circles in the backyard and observed another rabbit ignore that race condition to bound across the neighbors', no dogs in sight, I let things get good and stuck, then I pressed ^C.  Here sir, is your error trace:
> 
> $ pwd
> /Users/gknauth/test/plt/git/plt/pkgs/racket-pkgs/racket-doc
> $ racket -l scribblings/guide/let.scrbl
> ^Cuser break
>   context...:
>    /Users/gknauth/test/plt/git/plt/pkgs/sandbox-lib/racket/sandbox.rkt:883:2: user-eval
>    /Users/gknauth/test/plt/git/plt/pkgs/scribble-pkgs/scribble-lib/scribble/eval.rkt:399:0: do-plain-eval
>    /Users/gknauth/test/plt/git/plt/pkgs/scribble-pkgs/scribble-lib/scribble/eval.rkt:261:2
>    /Users/gknauth/test/plt/git/plt/pkgs/scribble-pkgs/scribble-lib/scribble/eval.rkt:550:0: do-titled-interaction
>    /Users/gknauth/test/plt/git/plt/pkgs/racket-pkgs/racket-doc/scribblings/guide/let.scrbl: [running body]
> 



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