On 6 December 2012 16:15, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 01:51:19PM +0000, Frank Shearar wrote:
>> On 6 December 2012 13:24, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > 1) Save the final release image as image format 6504 prior to release.
>> > This is done by resaving the image from an interpreter VM, which makes
>> > it usable by a wider range of VMs including some very old interpreter VMs
>> > that may still be in service (e.g. Edgars old Mac that does not have
>> > an updated interpreter VM available).
>>
>> Given that our CI runs on RHell, with its attendant library problems,
>> is it possible to use the InterpreterVM build's output in the
>> SqueakTrunkOnInterpreter job?
>>
>> If so, we could adjust SqueakTrunkOnInterpreter's job/script slightly
>> to do the above automatically, couldn't we?
>>
>
> Yes, this can be easily added as a step in either the SqueakTrunk or
> SqueakTrunkOnInterpreter job on box3. It's just a matter of running
> the final image once more using the interpreter VM and a start script
> consisting of "snapshot: true andExit: true".

Right. The latest SqueakTrunk build _should_ do this, if you'd like to
check it in about 8 minutes?

frank

> Dave
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