Image compatibility with older VM's

Derek Brans brans at nerdonawire.com
Wed May 21 01:08:56 UTC 2003


Thanks, Tim. I'll give that a try.  
Should I ask what PseudoTTYPlugin does?

Derek Brans
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Rowledge" <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: Image compatibility with older VM's


> Derek Brans <brans at nerdonawire.com> wrote:
> 
> > To sum it up, see the last question posted by Frank Shearar
> > 
> > at http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/1786
> Does it work if you simply don't try to build PseudoTTYPlugin?
> 
> A quick scan on the Yahoo archive (which by the way claims to be 'full'
> and in need of cleaning out somehow) for freebsd related messages leads
> me to believe that noone has mentioned this simplistic 'solution'. Which
> means I'm either brilliant or stupid.
> 
> Last time I understood the unix configure/makefile system it would not
> try to build a plugin if the code was not there and so you might well
> find all works if you simply remove the PseudoTTYPlugin from the VMMaker
> external (or indeed internal) list.
> 
> If you feel the need to build from the pre-assembled filetree from Ian's
> site, try simply removing the PseudoTTYPlugin mention from the
> src/plugins.ext file. Who knows, maybe it will work for you. 
> 
> tim
> -- 
> Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
> Useful random insult:- IQ = dx / (1 + dx), where x = age.
> 
> 
> 



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