[racket] Racket 5.1: "bitmap scheme-box.jpg failed to load" error

From: Karn Kallio (tierpluspluslists at gmail.com)
Date: Tue Feb 15 22:03:06 EST 2011

> Hi,
> 
> I just built racket 5.1 but when I run drracket, I'm getting this error:
> 
> $ drracket
> Error invoking tool
> #<path:/usr/lib/racket/collects/stepper>;("stepper+xml-tool.ss")
> 
> xml-box: bitmap scheme-box.jpg failed to load
> 
>  === context ===
> /usr/lib/racket/collects/drracket/private/tools-drs.rkt:96:0: invoke-drs-
tool
> /usr/lib/racket/collects/racket/private/map.rkt:50:17: loop
> /usr/lib/racket/collects/drracket/private/tools.rkt:70:0: load/invoke-all-
tools
> /usr/lib/racket/collects/drracket/tool-lib.rkt: [running body]
> /usr/lib/racket/collects/drracket/private/drracket-normal.rkt: [running 
body]
> /usr/lib/racket/collects/drracket/drracket.rkt: [running body]
> 
> In another thread on the dev mailing list[1], it seems that this kind
> of error is caused by jpeg.rkt not supporting the current libjpeg
> version.  My libjpeg version is libjpeg 8.3.0 (i.e. JPEG_LIB_VERSION
> is 80). Could it be the same issue?
> 
> Thanks.

I came across the same thing ... it must be libjpeg 6.2 (you can see this in 
the file collects/racket/draw/unsafe/jpeg.rkt


Posted on the users mailing list.