[BUG][FIX][UNIX] VM bugs and make problems

dpennell at quallaby.com dpennell at quallaby.com
Sat Apr 1 15:49:45 UTC 2000


Has anybody looked at how hard it would be to update the Unix VM 
to run headless via a command line switch like the Windows VM does?

-david

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bert Freudenberg [mailto:bert at isgnw.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De]
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 4:47 AM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: [BUG][FIX][UNIX] VM bugs and make problems
> 
> 
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Michael Rueger wrote:
> 
> > 2) The target headless in the make file is missing
> 
> You have to run "../conf/configure --without-x" manually from 
> the build
> directory ... But you're right, that's not obvious, and there are some
> minor (known) bugs - like HEADLESS not getting defined with certain
> autoconf versions. A workaround is to put this on top of sqXWindow.c:
> 
> #ifndef HAVE_LIBX11
> #define HEADLESS
> #endif
> 
> > Andreas hacked a workaround, but maybe one of the countless ;-)
> > config/make wizards can fix this?
> 
> You could automate this by inserting the following in the toplevel
> Makefile:
> 
> reconfigheadless@:
> 		@$(MAKE) CONFARGS=--without-x reconfig
> 		@-/bin/rm -f $(TARGET)/sqXWindow.o
> 
> Then you just have to type "make reconfigheadless squeak" to build a
> headless vm.
> 
>   -Bert-
> 





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