[squeak-dev] Letting the VM run multiple image formats

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Tue Feb 11 19:50:15 UTC 2020


On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 9:32 AM K K Subbu <kksubbu.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/02/20 10:09 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> >> The default prefix path should be changed to something like
> >> $HOME/.squeak or $HOME/.config/squeak so that default installations
> >> will not require root permission.
> > +1000. But this is not really the prefix path, but the default
> > installation.  Can’t we easily compute the correct prefix path in
> > the squeak launch script based on its path (i.e. from a combination
> > of $0 and $PATH ?).
>
> The prefix path gets recorded in the build directory Makefile, so the
> install step in http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6177


Ugh.  This does not describe the standard VM build :-(

   $ make install
>
> will fail because it requires a sudo. My proposal is to change the
> default so that install will proceed smoothly for non-root users.
> Package maintainers for distros can override this prefix in the
> configure step.
>
> Once installed, the squeakvm does compute the correct path for plugins
> etc. from its installed location.
>

The Cog VM build scripts install to a local directory,
opensmalltalk-vm.git.products
So there's no issue with the standard VM, AFAIA


>
> Regards .. Subbu
>

_,,,^..^,,,_
best, Eliot
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