Re: symlink to raco changes its behavior?

This is a holdover from `setup-plt` times. The `raco` executable treats
command line arguments without `-l` differently depending on whether
the name of the executable is `raco` (which was a may of improving
things with `raco` while maintaining compatibility for `setup-plt`).
So, it's expected at some level, but should be improved.

At 15 Nov 2019 19:37:52 -0500, "'John Clements' via users-redirect" wrote:
> 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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