[Vm-dev] re: hacking a 3.9 VM

[David T. Lewis]

On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 12:30:07AM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
> 
> Well, I'm startled at the problems we seem to be having here.  
> Obviously, as I was developing various versions of VMMaker I was  
> actually running them and building VMs. Clearly, I wouldn't have  
> deliberately released something that didn't work when testing it.  
> However, do remember that I do not have a Windows machine nor a *nix  
> machine so can't do anything but rely on others to test and report  
> back in a timely manner. IIRC, Dave Lewis for example has not had  
> problems with building *nix VMs recently.

I have not done a Unix build since SVN 1513, so I decided to give
it a try.  Somewhere between 1513 and 1546, a new problem seems to
have crept in.

Verifying on a 32 bit Intel Linux:

start with a clean Squeak 3.8 (Squeak3.8-6665-basic.zip)
update to 3.8.1
check version
  ==> SmalltalkImage current (sic) vmVersion 'Squeak3.8 of ''5 May 2005'' [latest update: #6665]'
update Squeak Map etc
load VMMaker 3.8b6 from SM
load OSProcessPlugin 4.0.1 from SM
load AioPlugin 2.0 from SM
  ==> %$%#$! SqueakMap gives user-friendly "can't find EOCD position" error
      loaded my own copy from disk
load XDisplayControlPlugin 2.0 from SM
  ==> another $#!%@$% SqueakMap error
      loaded my own copy from disk
get an up-to-date platforms tree from SVN (1546)
open VMMaker
  ==> MessageNotUnderstood: SystemDictionary>>wordSize
  load a copy of #wordSize from a 3.9 image
  enter Mantis 5198 to get #wordSize included in the next 3.8 release
open VMMaker
make all plugins internal except OSPP, AIO, XDCP
generate 32 bit code into ./src32 directory

then from a Unix shell:
$ ln -s src32 src
$ mkdir build32
$ cd build32
$ ../platforms/unix/config/configure
$ make install
  ==> no problems with build, but...
run Squeak
  ==> image startup fails in FileDirectory class>>startUp
      fails primitive in MacHFSPlusFileDirectory class>>primPathNameDelimiter
check "Smalltalk listLoadedModules" ==> FilePlugin is not loaded
  ==> hmmm... no wonder, VMM did not include it in the plugins to be built. Lots
      of other primitives were excluded also.
      
go back to an older version of platforms tree, SVN 1513.
open new VMMaker
  ==> FilePlugin and others are now included in the plugins to build
clean out src32, generate code, configure, make install
  ==> no problems with build
run Squeak
  ==> no problems

Dave