Hello all, On Windows, I noticed that Racket's initialization file is incorrectly set to %HOMEDIRVE%\%HOMEPATH%\.racketrc.rktl
$ grep 'WINDOWS_INIT_FILENAME' -r . ./racket-master/racket/src/gracket/grmain.c:#define WINDOWS_INIT_FILENAME "%%HOMEDIRVE%%\\%%HOMEPATH%%\\gracketrc.rktl" ./racket-master/racket/src/racket/main.c:# define WINDOWS_INIT_FILENAME "%%HOMEDIRVE%%\\%%HOMEPATH%%\\racketrc.rktl" ./racket-master/racket/src/racket/main.c:# define INIT_FILENAME WINDOWS_INIT_FILENAME (The correct location should of course be on %HOMEDRIVE%). Having never used a Racket initialization file, I set about developing a test case to demonstrate the error in code using for inspiration Greg Hendershott's answer regarding interactive use of Racket on SO (see https://stackoverflow.com/a/19876947/1689714). I set %HOMEDRIVE%\%HOMEPATH%\.racketrc.rktl to (require xrepl), and was surprised to see no issue with actually using definitions from xrepl after starting the racket executable. I soon realized that as the "current drive" was the same as %HOMEDRIVE% (i.e. 'C:') the failure to evaluate %HOMEDIRVE% would not be noticed since %HOMEPATH% alone would be enough to locate the file .racketrc.rktl. So ... I copied the 'foo.rkt' test file, and changed the shell's current directory, to 'D:\', launched the racket executable and got: D:\>racket Welcome to Racket v6.12. > (enter! "foo.rkt") ; error during prompt calculation: path->string: contract violation expected: path? given: "d:\\foo.rkt" [internal-error]> This seems to be the result of another issue entirely unconnected to the problem of locating the initialization file, and one I am not able to chase any further at the moment. Should I submit an error report? Cheers, Kieron. -- 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.
