[racket] compile-omit-paths and scribblings field

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 12 21:00:33 EDT 2011

I'm not following exactly-- are you saying that removing the
scribblings field causes fewer files to be compiled?

Robby

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at cs.wpi.edu> wrote:
> It appears that compile-omit-paths doesn't prevent a scribble file
> from being compiled, which is problematic if the scribble file
> requires another module that includes image snips.  We're seeing that
> when we PLaneT install a package, that during compilation, we see this
> error message:
>
>    raco setup:   write: cannot marshal value that is embedded in
> compiled code: (object:image% ...)
>
> However, if we remove the 'scribblings' field from the info.rkt,
> things compile cleanly, so we do think there's a bad interaction
> between compile-omit-paths and scribblings.  Is this a bug?
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