Re: [Jscheme-user] Build error: version.txt missing?

[Geoffrey S. K. <ge...@kn...>]

I added the following as the first sexp in src/build/make.scm:

(display (src ""))

to see just what JScheme thought the source path was, and it displayed:

/Users/gknauth/test/jscheme/t-fresh/jscheme-7.2/src:/System/Library/ 
Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Classes/.compatibility/src

(That was all one one line, in case mail chopped it up.)

I believe it was supposed to display just:

/Users/gknauth/test/jscheme/t-fresh/jscheme-7.2/src

In other words, the build process is trying to make the path to a  
filename, but the path contains more than one path element, so the  
filesystem errors back to Java, which reports back "No such file or  
directory."  It's the path it's complaining about, not a missing  
version.txt file.  version.txt is created by the (make-version)  
function call.

There's a potential clue in the comment just before the definition of  
appDir in make.scm:

;;; Assumes a subdirectory is the only thing on classpath.
(define appDir (.getCanonicalFile
		(.getParentFile
                   (.getCanonicalFile
		   (File. ($ "java.class.path"))))))
(define srcDir (File. appDir "src"))
(define (src name) (File. srcDir name))

It seems to me appDir needs to be fixed, because it is used in 20  
places in make.scm to build subdirectory paths.