Primitive Failed on Suns

Bruce O'Neel beoneel at mindspring.com
Fri Apr 14 12:10:56 UTC 2000


I'll poke at this and update the FTP site, but I'm just about to leave for
vacation so I won't do this until the 24th.

cheers

bruce

Aran Lunzer <aran at meme.hokudai.ac.jp> wrote:
> Rick Zaccone wrote:
> > I occasionally use Squeak 2.7 on a Sun running Solaris 2.6.  I get a
> > primitive failed error when running in morphic.  The error is
> > repeatable.
> > 
> > ...
> >
> > Is this a known error or might it be an installation problem?  Does
> > anyone have a fix?  I haven't seen this error on my Mac.
> 
> This is a known problem with the existing distribution of Squeak 2.7 for
> Sun Solaris.  Something seems to have gone wrong with the compilation.
> 
> When I raised the issue a few months back, there was little response
> from the list; maybe there are hardly any Sun Solaris Squeakers at the
> moment.  But Nathanael Schaerli kindly sent me his re-compiled versions,
> which seem to work fine (although I think Profiler.so has ended up
> bigger than it should be - not sure whether this is a problem).
> 
> I've made Nathanael's files available as
> 
>  http://ca.meme.hokudai.ac.jp/people/aran/squeak/Schaerli-Sq2.7.tar.gz
> 
> (approx 1MB).
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Aran
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