[Vm-dev] NativeBoost installation woes with Mac OS X

[Igor Stasenko]

On 30 September 2011 18:11, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 04:36:43PM +0200, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>
>> On 30 September 2011 11:42, Lawson English <lenglish5 at cox.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi. On an Intel Mac running Mac OS X 10.6.8, I followed the instructions to
>> > install a NativeBoost VM found here:
>> > http://code.google.com/p/nativeboost/wiki/Installation. I downloaded the
>> > latest Mac NBCog VM, ??and ran into an error after evaluating NBInstaller
>> > install.
>> >
>> > I'm using the 4.3alpha-11636.image file. The 4.2 image gives a different set
>> > of errors but also wont install:
>> >
>> > The progress bar window says: Compiling NativeBoost-Core-IgorStasenko.36
>> >
>> >
>> > The window title is "Syntax error" with a split text field. The top field
>> > contains:
>> > nbExternalStructure Fields parsing spec parseFields:byte
>> >
>> >
>> > The bottom field has a red error message embedded in this line:
>> >
>> > ?? ?? ?? ??stream peek == #Invalid literal character ->; ifTrue: [ stream next
>> > ].
>> > ?? ??].
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Help?
>> >
>> I didn't tested an installation in squeak 4.2 images.
>> It looks like there is a change in parser which don't likes the
>> following syntax:
>>
>> #( a; b ; c)
>>
>>
>> imo, this is correct syntax. a ';' should be converted to #; symbol.
>>
>
> Squeak 3.6:
> #( a; b ; c) ==> #(#a #; #b #; #c)
>
> Squeak 3.8:
> #( a; b ; c) ==> #(#a #; #b #; #c)
>
> Squeak trunk:
> #( a; b ; c) ==> #(#a #';' #b #';' #c)
>
> PharoCore-1.3-13173:
> #( a; b ; c) ==> #(#a #';' #b #';' #c)
>
> Dave
>

ok, then problem is in something else.
Lawson, could you please paste the full method source with problematic code?

>



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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.