On 17.07.2009, at 21:55, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
Am 17.07.2009 um 18:46 schrieb Bert Freudenberg:
On 17.07.2009, at 18:25, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
Am 17.07.2009 um 13:23 schrieb Damien Cassou:
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Andreas Raabandreas.raab@gmx.de wrote:
In any case, what is the process that users have to go through to get a closure-enabled VM on their preferred Unix flavor?
Download the 'GNU/Linux and other Unix' VM from:
I don't understand why UNIX is mentioned if only a Linux VM is available under this entry. I really would like to see a real (and actual) UNIX VM available for download.
There are very few non-Linux Unix users in the Squeak community. If someone would step forward to maintain a Solaris or *BSD or whatever unixy VM binary they would be welcome. Until then, everyone who needs it compiles their
I intend to create Solaris SPARC packages. Alas I have some problems with prerequisites at the moment. Libffi-3.0.8 has expected passes: 1049 unexpected failures: 285 unsupported tests: 15 I want to find out how to reduce the amount of failures (if possible). Then I will try to create real packages (not just tar files like on http://www.squeakvm.org/unix/) I don't like the /usr/local locations in the archives that are provided at squeakvm because they violate the SysV specifications. Alas I have to patch some places that were already fixed several months ago but nobody commited the changes. Of course I am also waiting for the closure changes appearing in the UNIX sources...
/usr/local is just the default location for user-compiled software. If you are building system packages you can of course change that, use the prefix option for the configure script.
Alternatively, someone could set up compiling VMs on a build farm, which various projects do provide (even for free). That way we'd get more VM binaries (and hopefully the users would report back with problems).
Wow, where is a SPARC build system? :D
SourceForge used to have a Compile Farm but when I looked now it was discontinued. But this one seems to be still alive:
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm
- Bert -