cannot find TestOSAPlugin

agree at carltonfields.com agree at carltonfields.com
Wed Nov 17 20:40:35 UTC 1999


You are not likely to ever find or install TestOSAPlugin, which has no meaning for non-Apple ports.  The problem you are having appears to result from the HP-UX implementation mishandling of plugin calls where the plugin is not available.  When a plugin library is not available, either because it is mangled, obsolete or simply doesn't exist, the proper system response would be for the primitive to fail, so that the corresponding Smalltalk code can execute (in this case, silently returning control to the calling code).  It should NOT, result in an OS trap.

The implementation appears not to be trapping this circumstance properly, or it may simply be giving you meaningless diagnostics.  On the other hand, problems with loading plugins (not TestOSAPlugin) could account for some of the Play-with-me difficulties you descrive, particularly those relating to sound and graphics.

The TestOSAPlugin message is either an ignorable (and unnecessary) diagnostic generated by the plugin code, or a harbinger of some other problems with the HP-UX treatment of plugins.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MIME :espinielli at lucent.com > Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 1:24 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: cannot find TestOSAPlugin
> > > Hi,
> I have compiled squeak 2.6 on HP-UX 10.20 with -DDEBUG
> and when running squeak Squeak2.6.image
> I have the following output:
>   loading: <intrinsics>
>   loading: TestOSAPlugin
>   could not find library for module: TestOSAPlugin
> > is this related to the fact I cannot run pratically any
> "Play wit Me"'s?
> > Any help is welcome...
> -- Enrico Spinielli
> mailto: espinielli at lucent.com
> > > > 





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