<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Bert Freudenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de" target="_blank">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 02.07.2014, at 18:59, Tobias Pape <<a href="mailto:Das.Linux@gmx.de">Das.Linux@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Just that it is not lost,<br>
><br>
> debian provides a facility to provide normally incompatible<br>
> binaries. (eg, different versions, different vendors)<br>
> they call it alternatives. (See /etc/alternatives)<br>
><br>
> one example: jvm. or cc.<br>
> on my server:<br>
><br>
> $ ls -l /usr/bin/cc<br>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Mar 19 13:10 /usr/bin/cc -> /etc/alternatives/cc<br>
><br>
> $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/cc<br>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Mar 19 13:10 /etc/alternatives/cc -> /usr/bin/gcc<br>
><br>
> and you can select:<br>
> $ upate-alternatives --list cc<br>
> /usr/bin/gcc<br>
> /usr/bin/clang<br>
><br>
><br>
> That way, we could provide different squeakvm's via this tool :)<br>
<br>
</div>Nope. That would work only if all VMs could open all images.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>But there's no technical reason why, on linux, we couldn't implement a replacement for the squeak script that would select a different lib dir depending on the type of the image. Perhaps when we have a CI server successfully building all VMs we could afford to do this?</div>
<div><br></div><div>--</div></div>best,<div>Eliot</div>
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