A user on IRC complained about an issue where after building and installing racket (with 'sudo make install') he received the following error upon starting drracket:
Error saving preferences: open-output-file: cannot open output file: "~/.racket/.LOCKracket-prefs.rktd" (Permission denied; errno=13) Apparently some part of the installation process writes to ~/.racket and since he used 'sudo' it was with root privileges. Its worth noting that if you use 'su -c make install' things work because 'su -c' changes $HOME to /root whereas sudo does not. The user used 'sudo make install' because he passed '--prefix=/usr/local' to configure and so expected things to install there. I suppose this is a case of user error but its extremely subtle so I wouldn't call it that. Maybe during installation ~/.racket shouldn't be used, and /tmp/racket could be used instead or something? _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
