Don't let anyone tell you otherwise...
Here's all the proof you need:
Several years ago I complained to Ian that I couldn't build squeak with the Croquet-crucial B3D plugins. I eventually found that the problem went away with the item $(X_LIBS) appended to make.prg.in.
He gave me a patronizing explaination of why that was stupid. He said he would correct the problem.
I have continued to experience this problem time and time again, each time I complain to him that it is still broken.
Now that many more months have passed, I, and my imperfect memory, forgot about the issue. Only when I remembered the problem I thought to re-apply my time-tested patch to get a successful build. GAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!
Anyway, now that I'm back in the VM hacking game, here's my idea...
There have been several suggestions for incompatible changes to the VM. Because it is still desirable to support older images (notably my workhorse 3.7 image with all my stuff in it...) I have come up with the idea of the "helper image"... The "helper image" is basically a patch that is applied to the main image at load time that includes the stuff the older image needs. (I'm planning an all out war on special objects, especially "Display").
Alan,
Your choice of subject line is offending and I am the moderator/admin of this list. You or anyone else are entitled to opinions about how the work on the VM is conducted - but keep the tone civilized, please.
regards, Göran
On Oct 23, 2005, at 12:00 PM, Alan Grimes wrote:
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise...
I'm kind of touched that it took you so long to notice.
Several years ago I complained to Ian that I couldn't build squeak with the Croquet-crucial B3D plugins. I eventually found that the problem went away with the item $(X_LIBS) appended to make.prg.in.
I still think this will prevent the executable from running when it's installed on a machine that has no X11 libraries. Maybe GNU/Linux is immune to this, but not architectures where I know for certain that the dynamic loader eagerly resolves transitive dependencies regardless of needing to resolve any symbols within them. (The XLIBS dependencies belong on vm-dpy-x11.so, not on the VM itself.) However, evil intentions may have caused me to exclude some configurations from building properly -- including internal (statically-linked) B3D support in the VM.
I have flagged your message as important and put it in the bugs queue. Assuming I can reproduce the problem I will fix it. If I can't reproduce the problem then I will at least figure out a way for you to tell configure to add the dependencies you need to the link command.
Ian
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