Hi Dave,

Turns out that the whole discussion was about the exact same version of the VM, so I guess it might still be released with a new version of the VM. The previous thread happened on squeak-dev:

http://n4.nabble.com/squeak-dev-3-11-3-2135-for-Unix-tt86054.html

Have fun, Markus

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From: David T. Lewis lewis@mail.msen.com To: Squeak Virtual Machine Development Discussion vm-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Sent: Wed, March 24, 2010 6:41:33 PM Subject: Re: [Vm-dev] unix start scripts, pwd and error

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 06:16:10PM -0700, Markus Lampert

wrote:

Hi,

I just downloaded the latest VM (Squeak-3.11.3.2135-linux_i386.tar.gz) from the website and installed it.

I remember having a discussion a few months ago about certain unix setup issues (to do with symbolic links) and 'error' as a utility.

I can't remember the solution for error (which isn't available under Linux (debian)), but I remember that instead of just calling 'pwd' to determine the 'bindir' we changed it to 'pwd -P', which is portable to all UNIX variants (at the time) and also deals correctly with symbolic links. These changes don't seem to have made it into the current vm download.

Did those changes not make it in (yet) or am I looking in the wrong places?

Markus,

Can you provide a link to the earlier discussion,

or to a Mantis report?

Thanks, Dave

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On Mar 24, 2010, at 9:47 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

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"Markus" == Markus Lampert markuslampert@yahoo.com writes:

Markus> I remember that instead of just calling 'pwd' to Markus> determine the 'bindir' we changed it to 'pwd -P', which is portable to Markus> all UNIX variants (at the time)

pwd -P is a relatively modern invention.

IIRC pwd on Solaris does not recognise this option.

Cheers, Ian