At 18:38 Uhr +0000 02.02.1999, Douglas Brebner wrote:
>On 02-Feb-99, Markus Kohler wrote:
>>  Ian Piumarta wrote:
>> >
>> > ftp://alix.inria.fr/pub/squeak/unix/2.3 contains the usual stuff for:
>> >
>> >         alpha-osf1-v4.0
>> >         i386-linux-2.0.36       (linked against glibc-2.0.7)
>> >         i386-linux-2.1.24       (linked against libc-5.4.38)
>> >         sparc-solaris-2.5.1
>> >         sparc-sunos-4.1.4
>> >
>>
>>  Can anyone confirm that Ballon works on these platforms ?
>>  I got 2.3 running on HP-UX now, but Ballon doesn't work.
>>  In fact the primitives for Ballon are failing.
>>  I really don't understand why because the failing primitive is
>>  defined in my interpreter C-file. It is the primitive
>>  primInitializeBuffer.
>
>I had the same problem. My platform (NetBSD/i386 1.3.3) stored the VM
>symbols with an underscore e.g.  _primInitializeBuffer
>
>You need to change ioLoadExternalFunctionOfLengthFromModuleOfLength()
>to add the underscore to the symbol name before dysym() if this is the
>problem.

In my case (HP/UX) the symbol not found is 'gePrimitiveInitializeBuffer'
although 'nm' lists it as external...

Georg
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