[squeak-dev] Re: OSProcess on Mac?

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sun Dec 12 19:29:31 UTC 2010


On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 07:48:39PM +0100, Bernhard Pieber wrote:
> Am 12.12.2010 um 17:53 schrieb Bernhard Pieber:
> > Am 12.12.2010 um 17:46 schrieb David T. Lewis:
> >> Some of the recent Mac VMs were built with a very out of date version
> >> of OSProcess that causes problems on Mac, including crashes when
> >> performing #forkSqueak. I'm not sure if the 4.2.5 VM has this issue,
> >> but you check by evaluating "OSProcess accessor osppModuleVersionString".
> >> If the result is '4.0.1' then you have the outdated plugin. You need
> >> at least version 4.0.2 to run safely on a Mac (the current version of
> >> OSPP is 4.4.0).
> > This seems to be my problem. I have the outdated 4.0.1. Can I get the most recent one built for Mac from somewhere?
> I found a VM with a more recent UnixOSProcessPlugin here:
> http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2316/Cog.app.tgz
> 
> Printing the following:
> OSProcess accessor osppModuleVersionString.
> results in '4.3.2'. Not the most recent one but still 212 of the 219 tests run. The only 7 failures are the known forkSqueak issue.
> 
> Now all of CommandShell works beautifully!

Excellent, I'm glad it's working, and thanks for the feedback!

> 
> Thanks David for this cool package!
> 
> Cheers,
> Bernhard
> 




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