[plt-scheme] Re: Install error: access from an uncertified context...

On Thursday 05 March 2009, Noel Welsh wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Michael Schuerig <michael at schuerig.de> 
wrote:
> > I don't understand how things work nearly well enough, to diagnose
> > the cause of this problem. The only workaround I've found is to
> > remove the planet cache an reinstall packages again after
> > installing PLT Scheme.
>
> Looks like the problem is in scribble-paper.plt. I expect this error
> doesn't really matter, and everything will run fine (possibly some
> libraries won't be precompiled and some docs won't be built but this
> probably won't be a major issue).

It is an issue, because make install is aborted by it. As I don't know 
if there are any important make steps afterwards, the best I can do is 
clear the planet cache and run make install again.

I take it, though without having tested it, that rebuilding the cache 
for installed planet packages is an optional optimization. If that is 
indeed the case, make install should not abort when an error occurs 
during rebuilding.

> > make install is a somewhat time-consuming operation. AFAICT, make
> > is only used to trigger some scheme code that ploughs ahead
> > "blindly". Would it be possible for this code to take dependencies
> > into account and only rebuild things that need it?
>
> I think setup-plt does incremental builds.

Possibly, but if it does, this doesn't speed up repeated make installs.

Michael

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