[plt-scheme] using PLaneT

Am I missing something? Why is there a permissions error for writing to
a directory you own? Are you using sudo to run PLaneT? (you shouldn't
be, I believe)

Robby

At Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:35:52 -0400, Prabhakar Ragde wrote:
> Eli Barzilay wrote:
> 
> >> I put the necessary "require
> >> (planet ...)  into my code, but it was run via a shell script
> >> invoked from the command line, which failed with a permissions
> >> error.
> > 
> > This should not have happened -- planet should only touch files in
> > your home directory, and these all should belong to you.
> 
> See below.
> > 
> >> I had to run it using sudo to get the download to occur, and then my
> >> code was horribly slow.  Running setup-plt (also under sudo)
> >> compiled WebIt! (plus some other collections which didn't seem to be
> >> compiled) and my code was much faster after that. Is it supposed to
> >> be this complicated?
> > 
> > Seems like you had some other problem then.  If you can try the new
> > installers from pre.plt-scheme.org, that will be helpful.  These are
> > made in a way that should allow users with administrative rights to
> > write to the plt directory.  (Although that is not needed for using
> > planet.)
> 
> I just tried 301.12 from the above source. I put a symbolic link from 
> /usr/local/bin/newmzscheme to the mzscheme in the bin directory of 
> 301.12 so I could use the same shell script. (Previously I had a 
> symbolic link to 301.) When I run the shell script from Terminal, it says:
> 
> make-directory: cannot make directory: /Users/plragde/Library/PLT 
> Scheme/planet/300/301.12 (Permission denied; errno=13)
> 
> 
>   === context ===
> /Applications/PLT Scheme v301.12/collects/planet/resolver.ss:172:2: resolver
> /Applications/PLT Scheme 
> v301.12/collects/errortrace/errortrace-lib.ss:270:4: errortrace-annotate
> /Applications/PLT Scheme 
> v301.12/collects/errortrace/errortrace-lib.ss:296:6: 
> errortrace-compile-handler
> standard-module-name-resolver
> /Applications/PLT Scheme 
> v301.12/collects/errortrace/errortrace-lib.ss:270:4: errortrace-annotate
> /Applications/PLT Scheme 
> v301.12/collects/errortrace/errortrace-lib.ss:296:6: 
> errortrace-compile-handler
> 
> Perms on ~/Library and all the way down are drwxr-xr-x, which look right 
> to me. My shell script starts:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> #|
> #exec /usr/local/bin/mzscheme -M errortrace -qgr "$0" "$@"
> exec /usr/local/bin/newmzscheme -M errortrace -qgr "$0" "$@"
> |#
> 
> before continuing with some simple Scheme stuff (requiring my module, 
> and invoking a function that it exports). It's the module which requires 
> WebIt! by way of PLaneT. All this should run as me, right?
> 
> Oh, and when I ran setup-plt last time to fix things, there were only a 
> couple of obscure things in /collects that it compiled, plus WebIt!, 
> which was the only thing in my PLaneT cache (I cannot type PLaneT 
> without five tries at it...) --PR
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