Okay, okay I was a dingbat. :)
My discovery of that "different" src tarball is the one linked on Ian's 
front page. See "Gentoo Squeak install report"

After seeing this message, I downloaded to the 3.4 vm.

With GCC 3.2.2 on Gentoo I have not experienced any of the difficulties 
others have experienced with a post 2.95 GCC. With either of the Unix 
src VMs.

I don't know if GCC 3.2.2 is different from what others are using and/or 
if it fixed any problems that existed prior to it. But I have had 
success so far with it on Gentoo. I am also using -O3 optimization.

I too want to express my gratefulness to Ian for his efforts on the Unix 
VM. It will be a great blessing for us (and hopefully him) to have him 
to be able to begin to participate in Squeak some more. :)

Thanks Ian.

Jimmie Houchin



Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Lately there have been many reports of folks not being able to get the 
> "latest" Unix VM to work. I just wanted to point out that you all should 
> be using the 3.4 VM. It goes fine with a 3.5 image (which was only a bug 
> fix release anyway) and should run all the latest and greatest stuff 
> (3.6-something) just fine. It even runs Croquet.
> 
> Here it is straight from the Ian's mouth:
> 
> Ian Piumarta <ian.piumarta at inria.fr> wrote on June 5 2003
> 
>> BTW, you guys are all hammering on a completely unreleased "alpha" VM
>> containing oodles of new code that I hacked up over the space of a 
>> week or
>> two and didn't really test much (yet).  This is partly what's making your
>> lives difficult.  (I'm not complaining about this in any way shape or 
>> form
>> -- it's _really_ nice to be getting all this *great* feedback -- but I
>> thought you should know anyway. ;)  3.4 is still the "stable" VM of
>> choice.
> 
> And also:
> 
>> [...] I plan to be back in full-time Squeak circulation Real Soon Now...
> 
> Yay! :-)
> 
> -- Bert