[squeak-dev] Squeak 4.6 -- 2nd release candidate

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Tue Jul 7 02:46:09 UTC 2015


Probably the Compiler recompileAll..?

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 6:31 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 05:57:01PM -0500, Chris Muller wrote:
>> Squeak4.6-15093 is now available at http://ftp.squeak.org/4.6/.  It
>> addresses the issues we found with RC1.
>>
>> The sources file was rebuilt again, which means the prior
>> SqueakV46.sources file should not be trusted.  For that reason, I
>> actually decided to remove the RC1 files.
>>
>> Eliot said he wants to build the Cog VM one more time.  Then I'll try
>> to assemble the All-In-One.
>
> Thanks Chris!
>
> The RC2 image has the same "crash the interpreter" issue as RC1. Based
> on your earlier note, I tried this today:
>
> - Start with Squeak4.5-13680.image from ftp.squeak.org
>
> - Using Cog, updated the image to latest current trunk, producing "Squeak4.5 of 6 July 2015 update 15093"
>
> - Save image and restart under interpreter VM.
>
> - Open SqueakMap, update it, and load TwosComplement
>     ==> no problem
>
> - Quit image, no save.
>
> - Restart image on interpreter VM
>
> - Evaluate ReleaseBuilder prepareNewRelease (enter password)
>
>   Notes:
>   Warning: Tools-topa.520 not found in trunk.
>   Warning: Kernel-topa.845 not found in trunk.
>   Warning: Display extent not set to 800 at 600
>   Error: Missing snapshot: Sound-nice.38
>     ==> fail, errors related to sound package
>
> - Try again under Cog, same errors. Maybe needs to run on Mac?
>
> So at this point I can confirm that a trunk image fully updated
> from Squeak 4.5 works fine, with the update done on a Cog VM. However
> I am not able to run the prepareNewRelease to see its effect.
>
> The errors I am getting in #prepareNewRelease seem to be related to
> the sound package, so maybe it is some problem with my local system.
>
> Any advice? I am assuming that you are doing the build on your own
> system, so maybe you could give me a copy of the image that you produce
> immediately prior to running #prepareNewRelease? That should be equivalent
> to the image that I just updated (which works without problems), so
> that might give us an indication of whether the problem is introduced
> in #prepareNewRelease or somewhere else.
>
> Thanks (and thanks for your patience in working through these issues),
>
> Dave
>
>


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