[Vm-dev] Re: UUID as internal (was 4.0.3.2196 for Unix)

[laurent laffont]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:05 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

>
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 08:12:26AM +0200, laurent laffont wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:36 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Can you confirm that the bug does *not* exist when you build the plugin
> > > as internal, and that it *does" exist if you build it external on the
> > > same platform. It would be a big help to know if this is the case.
> > >
> > > My impression up until now is that this is a bug in the runtime libuuid
> > > library, and that it has something to do with running a program with
> > > pthreads (i.e. it does not happen with a simple test program). But I
> > > have never actually seen the bug on my own system, so I'm guessing
> based
> > > on some google searches and the information that I read on the Pharo
> list.
> >
> > I have just built last release (Squeak-4.0.3.2200-src.tar.gz) with UUID
> as
> > internal and it works like a charm. All Pharo 1.0-RC4 tests green ! Thank
> > you all.
> >
> > So there's a real problem when UUID is external.
>
> Hi Laurent,
>
> Thanks for the update. I added this to the Mantis 7358 issue also.
>
> I have one more request if you have the time. Could you please download
> Ian's latest build to your system, and try running the Pharo test using
> Ian's build? The reason that I ask is that neither Ian nor I can reproduce
> the UUID bug on our computers.  So if you can run Ian's VM on your computer
> without problems for the UUID bug, this would indicate that it is safe
> to distribute the VM with the internal UUID plugin for Squeak users.
>
> You can download the VM from:
>  http://squeakvm.org/unix/release/Squeak-4.0.3.2200-linux_i386.tar.gz
>
> You do not need to install Ian's VM to test it, just unpack it into a
> temporary directory, and run it from the temporary directory.
>
>  $ tar xzvf Squeak-4.0.3.2200-linux_i386.tar.gz
>  $ cd Squeak-4.0.3.2200-linux_i386/bin/squeak
>  $ ./squeak ../../pharo.image
>
> Thanks a lot, this is a big help :)
>
> Dave
>


With this build all tests green  but freetype fonts don't work. It seems
FT2Plugin is not loaded.

SmalltalkImage current listLoadedModules  gives

#('DSAPrims 10 April 2010 (i)' 'FloatArrayPlugin 10 April 2010 (i)'
'SocketPlugin 10 April 2010 (i)' 'ZipPlugin 10 April 2010 (i)' 'UUIDPlugin
12 April 2010 (i)' 'LargeIntegers v1.5 10 April 2010 (i)' 'B2DPlugin 10
April 2010 (i)' 'BitBltPlugin 10 April 2010 (i)' 'SecurityPlugin 10 April
2010 (i)' 'FilePlugin 10 April 2010 (i)' 'MiscPrimitivePlugin 10 April 2010
(i)')

SmalltalkImage current listBuiltinModules gives

 #('ADPCMCodecPlugin 10 April 2010 (i)' 'AsynchFilePlugin 10 April 2010 (i)'
'BMPReadWriterPlugin 10 April 2010 (i)' 'B2DPlugin 10 April 2010 (i)'
'BitBltPlugin 10 April 2010 (i)' 'CroquetPlugin 10 April 2010 (i)' 'DSAPrims
10 April 2010 (i)' 'ZipPlugin 10 April 2010 (i)' 'DropPlugin 10 April 2010
(i)' 'FFTPlugin 10 April 2010 (i)' 'FilePlugin 10 April 2010 (i)'
'FloatArrayPlugin 10 April 2010 (i)' 'FloatMathPlugin 10 April 2010 (i)'
'GeniePlugin v2.0 10 April 2010 (i)' 'JPEGReadWriter2Plugin 10 April 2010
(i)' 'JPEGReaderPlugin 10 April 2010 (i)' 'JoystickTabletPlugin 10 April
2010 (i)' 'Klatt 10 April 2010 (i)' 'LargeIntegers v1.5 10 April 2010 (i)'
'LocalePlugin 10 April 2010 (i)' 'Matrix2x3Plugin 10 April 2010 (i)'
'MiscPrimitivePlugin 10 April 2010 (i)' 'RePlugin 10 April 2010 (i)'
'SecurityPlugin 10 April 2010 (i)' 'SerialPlugin 10 April 2010 (i)'
'SocketPlugin 10 April 2010 (i)' 'SoundCodecPrims 10 April 2010 (i)'
'SoundGenerationPlugin 10 April 2010 (i)' 'SoundPlugin 10 April 2010 (i)'
'StarSqueakPlugin 10 April 2010 (i)' 'SurfacePlugin Apr 12 2010 (i)'
'UUIDPlugin 12 April 2010 (i)')

Cheers,

Laurent Laffont
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