[racket] How to document a package and access its documentation

On 13/08/13 18:15, Lawrence Woodman wrote:
> On 13/08/13 13:44, Matthew Flatt wrote:
>> At Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:15:10 +0100, Lawrence Woodman wrote:
>>> However, despite being able to render the docs with scribble, I still
>>> can't render with
>>> raco setup/ raco pkg install.  When I try, I get the following error:
>>>
>>>       raco setup: --- building documentation ---
>>>       raco setup: docs failure: application: not a procedure;
>>>        expected a procedure that can be applied to arguments
>>>         given: #f
>>>         arguments...:
>>>          'scribblings
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any idea why this is being caused?  Or how I can go
>>> about investigating it?
>> That looks like a a bug in `raco setup' that has been fixed in v5.90.x.
>> It happens when a "info-domain/compiled/cache.rktd" file, which record
>> fields provided by "info.rkt" files, gets out of sync with the
>> "info.rkt" files.
>
> Which would make sense as I was mucking about with these files when
> trying to sort out the conflict with the PLaneT file.
>
>> Does running `raco setup' with 0 arguments fix the problem?
>
> I tried it, and tried various other things, butI kept finding references
> to the plt file.  So I deleted the ~/.racket directory in the hope 
> that it
> would regenerate.  Unfortunately the doc database hasn't regenerated
> so I can't run raco setup as there is no database for it.  I have tried
> reinstalling racket from the debian repo, but no joy.  Any ideas?

I thought I'd just reply to this as I found a fix for it and someone may 
come
across this via a search.

The problem only appears when using a package link to a directory when
no packages have been installed under the user's .racket folder.  As soon
as I installed a package for the user, the problem went away.


Lorry

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