[racket] Issue with "raco pkg install -u"

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 24 10:29:27 EDT 2013

It looks like `raco setup' thinks that the bytecode form of

  "scribblings/main/private/make-search.rkt"

is out of date, and so it's trying to recompile the file.

What is the timestamp on "make-search.rkt"? Does the file
"compiled/make-search_rkt.zo" exist, and if so, what is its timestamp?

At Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:16:02 +0200, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote:
> Why raco requires write permissions to /usr?
> 
> --> raco pkg install --scope user frog
> The following packages are listed as dependencies, but are not currently 
> installed:
>          markdown rackjure
> Would you like to install them via your package indices? [Yn]
> raco setup: version: 5.3.5 [3m]
> raco setup: variants: 3m
> raco setup: main collects: /usr/local/lib/racket/collects
> raco setup: collects paths:
> raco setup:   /home/juanfra/.racket/5.3.5/collects
> raco setup:   /usr/local/lib/racket/collects
> raco setup: --- pre-installing collections ---
> raco setup: --- compiling collections ---
> raco setup: making: /home/juanfra/.racket/5.3.5/pkgs/installed/frog/example
> raco setup: making: 
> /home/juanfra/.racket/5.3.5/pkgs/installed/frog/example/_src
> raco setup: making: 
> /home/juanfra/.racket/5.3.5/pkgs/installed/frog/example/_src/posts
> raco setup: making: 
> /home/juanfra/.racket/5.3.5/pkgs/installed/frog/example/_src/subdir
> raco setup: making: 
> /home/juanfra/.racket/5.3.5/pkgs/installed/frog/example/css
> raco setup: making: 
> /home/juanfra/.racket/5.3.5/pkgs/installed/frog/example/img
> raco setup: making: 
> /home/juanfra/.racket/5.3.5/pkgs/installed/frog/example/js
> raco setup: making: /home/juanfra/.racket/5.3.5/pkgs/installed/frog/frog
> raco setup:  in /home/juanfra/.racket/5.3.5/pkgs/installed/frog/frog/
> raco setup:  in 
> /home/juanfra/.racket/5.3.5/pkgs/installed/rackjure/rackjure/
> raco setup:  in 
> /home/juanfra/.racket/5.3.5/pkgs/installed/rackjure/rackjure/lang/
> raco setup:  in 
> /home/juanfra/.racket/5.3.5/pkgs/installed/markdown/markdown/ 
>                   [57/727]
> raco setup:  in /home/juanfra/.racket/5.3.5/pkgs/installed/frog/
> raco setup: making: 
> /home/juanfra/.racket/5.3.5/pkgs/installed/markdown/markdown
> raco setup:  in 
> /home/juanfra/.racket/5.3.5/pkgs/installed/markdown/markdown/
> raco setup: making: 
> /home/juanfra/.racket/5.3.5/pkgs/installed/markdown/markdown/test
> raco setup: making: 
> /home/juanfra/.racket/5.3.5/pkgs/installed/rackjure/rackjure
> raco setup:  in 
> /home/juanfra/.racket/5.3.5/pkgs/installed/rackjure/rackjure/
> raco setup: making: 
> /home/juanfra/.racket/5.3.5/pkgs/installed/rackjure/rackjure/lang
> raco setup: making: scribblings/main/user
> raco setup:  in scribblings/main/private
> open-output-file: cannot open output file
>    path: 
> /usr/local/lib/racket/collects/scribblings/main/private/compiled/make-search_rkt
> .zo
>    system error: Permission denied; errno=13
> raco setup: --- updating info-domain tables ---
> raco setup: updating: <user>/info-domain/compiled/cache.rktd
> raco setup: --- creating launchers ---
> raco setup: --- building documentation ---
> raco setup: --- installing collections ---
> raco setup: --- post-installing collections ---
> raco setup:
> raco setup: error: during making for scribblings/main/user
> raco setup:   open-output-file: cannot open output file
> raco setup:     path: 
> /usr/local/lib/racket/collects/scribblings/main/private/compiled/make-search_rkt
> .zo
> raco setup:     system error: Permission denied; errno=13
> 
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