test suite early failure on 3.10 Windows

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sun Nov 8 20:48:45 UTC 2009


On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 12:37:23PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> I loaded magma into a 3.10 basic image along with OSProcess, 
> NewCompiler, their dependencies and some other stuff on Linux.  I copied 
> it to Windows Vista and executed
> MagmaTestCase fullSuite maDebug
> The image got changed to _magmaTestConductor image, but before any other 
> windows were launched I got the error whose stack trace appears below.
> 
> The problem seems to be that in the 2nd item up the stack, 
> ExternalWindowsOSProcess>>value,
> self initialStdErr
> returns nil.
> 
> Any ideas?

Ross,

OSProcess has very limited functionality on Windows, and the required
plugin is not distributed with the VM. Sorry.

Dave



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