symlink to raco changes its behavior?

I’ve been testing the release version of racket for a few weeks now, and I notice a strange difference between using the “raco” binary that’s part of the distribution and using a symlink to that binary. Specifically, calling raco setup always requires an explicit ‘-l’ when I use the symlink. When I provide the path to raco explicitly, it works fine without the -l. Attached see a transcript that shows the problem. I just want to make sure that … this is expected behavior?

John


```
# here’s the symlink:
hardy:/tmp/moss clements> ls -ld ~/bin/nuraco
lrwxr-xr-x  1 clements  staff  40 Oct 15 11:30 /Users/clements/bin/nuraco -> /Applications/Racket v7.4.0.902/bin/raco
# calling it with an explicit path works fine:
hardy:/tmp/moss clements> /Applications/Racket\ v7.4.0.902/bin/raco setup csse-scheduling
raco setup: version: 7.4.0.902
raco setup: platform: x86_64-macosx [3m]
raco setup: target machine: racket
raco setup: installation name: 7.4.0.902
raco setup: variants: 3m
raco setup: main collects: /Applications/Racket v7.4.0.902/collects
raco setup: collects paths: 
raco setup:   /Users/clements/Library/Racket/7.4.0.902/collects
raco setup:   /Applications/Racket v7.4.0.902/collects
raco setup: main pkgs: /Applications/Racket v7.4.0.902/share/pkgs
raco setup: pkgs paths: 
raco setup:   /Applications/Racket v7.4.0.902/share/pkgs
raco setup:   /Users/clements/Library/Racket/7.4.0.902/pkgs
raco setup: links files: 
raco setup:   /Applications/Racket v7.4.0.902/share/links.rktd
raco setup:   /Users/clements/Library/Racket/7.4.0.902/links.rktd
raco setup: main docs: /Applications/Racket v7.4.0.902/doc
raco setup: --- updating info-domain tables ---                    [16:31:56]
raco setup: --- pre-installing collections ---                     [16:31:56]
raco setup: --- installing foreign libraries ---                   [16:31:56]
raco setup: --- installing shared files ---                        [16:31:56]
raco setup: --- compiling collections ---                          [16:31:56]
raco setup: --- parallel build using 8 jobs ---                    [16:31:56]
raco setup: 7 making: <pkgs>/csse-scheduling/csse-scheduling (CSSE Scheduling Support)
raco setup: 7 making: <pkgs>/csse-scheduling/csse-scheduling/progress
raco setup: --- creating launchers ---                             [16:31:57]
raco setup: --- installing man pages ---                           [16:31:57]
raco setup: --- building documentation ---                         [16:31:57]
raco setup: 2 skipping: <pkgs>/distro-build-doc/distro-build.scrbl
raco setup: rendering: <pkgs>/csse-scheduling/csse-scheduling/csse-scheduling.scrbl
WARNING: collected information for key multiple times: '(exporting-libraries #f); values: '(canonicalize) '(types)
WARNING: collected information for key multiple times: '(exporting-packages #f); values: '() '()
WARNING: collected information for key multiple times: '(exporting-libraries #f); values: '(types) '(qtr-math)
WARNING: collected information for key multiple times: '(exporting-packages #f); values: '() '()
raco setup: --- installing collections ---                         [16:32:02]
raco setup: --- post-installing collections ---                    [16:32:02]
# calling it using the symlink doesn’t work:
hardy:/tmp/moss clements> nuraco setup csse-scheduling
open-input-file: cannot open input file
  path: /tmp/moss/csse-scheduling
  system error: No such file or directory; errno=2
  context...:
   /Applications/Racket v7.4.0.902/collects/setup/unpack.rkt:262:2: unpack7
   /Applications/Racket v7.4.0.902/collects/setup/setup-core.rkt:287:13: for-loop
   /Applications/Racket v7.4.0.902/collects/setup/setup-core.rkt:72:0: setup-core
   "/Applications/Racket v7.4.0.902/collects/setup/main.rkt": [running body]
   temp37_0
   for-loop
   run-module-instance!125
   "/Applications/Racket v7.4.0.902/collects/raco/main.rkt": [running body]
   temp37_0
   for-loop
   run-module-instance!125
   perform-require!78
hardy:/tmp/moss clements> 
```

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