[Vm-dev] Linux vm default plugins directory

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 01.09.2010, at 22:38, Eliot Miranda wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
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> On 01.09.2010, at 21:12, Eliot Miranda wrote:
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> > Hi Wilhelm,
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> > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K <bschwab at anest.ufl.edu> wrote:
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> >> A recurring theme is that I encounter a problem for which there is no explanation from the system, hack the vm sources to add some tracing, and correct the problem.  As a result, I end up building the vm from source and so tend to use a shell script that runs it.
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> > Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the relevant directory.  Here's the script I use at Teleplace
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> The current "squeak" script fills in the plugins path, so there is no need to fiddle with LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
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> If one has a plugin that depends on a secondary library then fiddling with LD_LIBRARY_PATH can be necessary.

True, but that's not specific to squeak :)

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> http://squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/trunk/platforms/unix/cmake/squeak.in
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> However, I occasionally too see a plugin that inexplicably does not want to load.
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> Inexplicably, or because some symbol is undefined?

Inexplicably. I'm pretty certain that I've seen a plugin I just compiled fail, and when compiled again it worked. 

- Bert -


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