[racket] Error while installing nightlies

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 20 09:27:21 EST 2013

Thanks for the report! This should be fixed in the latest snapshots.

At Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:25:34 +0100, Laurent wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can't install nightlies due to an error (see below).
> This happens with both Utah's and NW's versions of Ubuntu Precise Pangolin
> 64bits, with Unix-style install.
> 
> Anyone else seeing this?
> 
> Laurent
> 
> [...]
> Checking the integrity of the binary archive... ok.
> Unpacking into "/usr/racket-5.90.0.11-tmp-install" (Ctrl+C to abort)...
> Done.
> Moving bin -> /usr/bin
> Moving collects -> /usr/share/racket-5.90.0.11/collects
> Moving doc -> /usr/share/racket-5.90.0.11/doc
> Moving lib -> /usr/lib/racket-5.90.0.11
> Moving include -> /usr/include/racket-5.90.0.11
> Moving share/applications -> /usr/share/applications
> Moving share -> /usr/share/racket-5.90.0.11
> Moving etc -> /usr/etc/racket-5.90.0.11
> Moving man -> /usr/share/man
> Moving README -> /usr/share/racket-5.90.0.11/doc/README
> *** Error: undoing changes...
> split-path: path is an empty string
>   context...:
> 
> /usr/racket-5.90.0.11-tmp-install/collects/setup/unixstyle-install.rkt:272:21:
> for-loop
> 
> /usr/racket-5.90.0.11-tmp-install/collects/setup/unixstyle-install.rkt:267:2:
> for-loop
> 
> /usr/racket-5.90.0.11-tmp-install/collects/setup/unixstyle-install.rkt:450:0:
> move/copy-distribution
>    (submod
> /usr/racket-5.90.0.11-tmp-install/collects/setup/unixstyle-install.rkt
> main): [running body]
> Error: installation failed
>   (Removing installation files in /usr/racket-5.90.0.11-tmp-install)
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