I see the same behavior as you with the v6.8 release. The problem is related to cross-compilation and path conventions. A cross-compiled build (such as the Windows distribution) starts with an "info-cache.rktd" that has paths in Unix format instead of Windows format, and `raco setup` (as run by `raco pkg update`) gets confused by the differing conventions.
I think the solution is to avoid using platform-specific path conventions in "info-cache.rktd", and I'll fix that for the next release. Meanwhile, I expect that you can repair the installation by deleting "share/info-cache.rktd" and running `raco setup`. Alternatively, the snapshot from Utah at http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/snapshots/ should also behave correctly (and does for me), since that snapshot is built on a virtual machine running Windows. At Thu, 6 Apr 2017 23:22:57 -0700 (PDT), Alex Harsanyi wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to make some changes to the built-in plot package and I'm > following > the instructions from this thread to get a local git clone of the package: > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/racket-users/eP6QLUD8DlA/tQbRDlCQEwAJ > > My platform is Windows with Racket 6.8 64 bit installed. I'm running the > command: > > raco pkg update --catalog https://pkgs.racket-lang.org plot > > This command takes about 30 minutes to complete and appears to re-built the > entire documentation. After running the command, however, the entire Racket > installation is broken. Running DrRacket fails with several messages like > this: > > Error invoking tool #<path:C:\Program > Files\Racket\share\pkgs\drracke\drracket>;"syncheck.rkt" > > add-child: child already exists with this path: '("Colors" "Check Syntax") > > Running raco from the command line fails with the same kind of "registered > twice" messages (I can post them if anyone is interested). > > My question is: what is the procedure for working on built-in racket > packages? > (without having to rebuild the entire Racket distribution) > > Thanks, > Alex. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
