> On 29.08.2017, at 13:58, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:39:24PM +0200, Tobias Pape wrote:
>> Hmm, 
>> 
>>> On 16.08.2017, at 19:53, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> We need to demonstrate that the vm can be built in a vanilla-as-posible Debian;
>> 
>> does a simple "yes" suffice here?
>> Because I do that on my server (Debian GNU/Linux 8.9 (jessie) x64) quite irregularily???
>> 
>> FWIW, have a log attached :)
>> 
> 
> Hi Tobias,
> 
> Thanks for confirming this. If possible, could you also please try running
> an Etoys image, and see if it starts and runs? 
> 

Well, that machine has no display, so I'm unsure here.

> The reason for asking is that Debian is going to remove the Etoys package
> due to a dependency on their old and modified version of squeakvm:
> 
>  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862576
> 
> The Debian squeakvm package is very outdated, and has been modified in
> various ways by the Debian maintainers. I would like to suggest to them
> that they get rid of the broken code base and use the up to date VM code
> that you just tested.


I'd also rather have that.
> 
> The Debian bug report suggests a failure at runtime, so it would be good
> if we can verify that the Etoys image does run on the current squeakvm
> that you compiled. It works fine for me on my old Ubuntu system, but it
> might be that there are problems related to compilers or libraries on the
> latest Debian.
> 

oh dear…

Best regards
	-Tobias

> Thanks very much!
> 
> Dave