Ned Konz wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 August 2003 08:49 am, Jimmie Houchin wrote:
> 
>>Now I'm confused.
>>
>>I have the generated sources directory which is
>>/home/jimmie/Squeak/images/src
> 
> That's a bad idea. Generate the sources into 
> /usr/local/src/squeak/src.

Okay. That was the directory that VMMaker created and used. It didn't 
exist prior to installing VMMaker.

Will make the change.

>>and my cvs directory
>>/usr/local/src/squeak/platforms/unix
>>.............................../Cross
>>
>>If I compile from the cvs directory, what did VMMaker do?
> 
> Generated the sources that didn't come from CVS. That is, for all the 
> plugin and VM sources that are written in Slang, it generates C code.
> 
> This is then compiled with the stuff you got from CVS that was written 
> in C by humans.

Well it does something with the cvs sources. It wouldn't generate the 
plugins until I retrieved the cvs sources.

>>What is the purpose of the generated source?
> 
> To give the compiler something to do?

Is there any particular advantage one way or the other for external vs 
internal plugins?

Thanks again for the assistance.

I will make the changes and give it a go.

Jimmie Houchin