On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Han Holl wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> Id this just me, or is the VM on Linux (2.0.36, different machines,
> different X-servers) quite unstable.
> With the downloaded binary, I could send the VM in a closed loop
> by choosing the nextPage button in the Morphbook (one of the 
> play-with-me's).
> I recompiled, and now nextPage works, but, for example, selecting
> '1 + abc' and doing it in the Workspace does not produce an
> error, but causes the VM to freeze. If I kill it via the WM button
> close, it gets in a closed loop.
> Playing around for a bit with the morph interface, is also almost
> guaranteed to get the VM in a closed loop.
> 
> It would be nice if someone could confirm this behaviour, or maybe
> there is something wrong with my system(s).
> 
> Linux-2.0.36, fresh, hardly updated, RedHat 5.2, with KDE desktop.
> (I tried different Xservers and WM's, but no difference there).
> 
> 

Intel linux?  I built and packaged squeak this weekend, and I see the same
behavior on my mklinux for powerpc installation.  I just assumed that it
was a peculiarity of mklinux.  The MacOS version works beautifully. 

By the way, I built an rpm for squeak which can be obtained from my
machine at

ftp://bacon.ne.mediaone.net/pub/redhat/RPMS/ppc/squeak-2.2-1.ppc.rpm
ftp://bacon.ne.mediaone.net/pub/redhat/SRPMS/squeak-2.2-1.src.rpm

The source package should build and install on other architectures than
ppc.  I packaged up a number of squeak html pages for the documentation
portion of the package.  The image, changes and sources files are put in
/usr/local/share/squeak. A script called "newsqueak" will create a new
squeak directory in your home directory and copy the image, changes and
sources there.  This makes it easy to keep the originals intact for
multiple users.

Fred Bacon

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