[Vm-dev] Packaging vm 3.11.3 for Debian

[José L. Redrejo Rodríguez]

El mar, 29-12-2009 a las 09:57 -0500, David T. Lewis escribió:
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 01:55:12PM +0100, Jos? L. Redrejo Rodr?guez wrote:
> >  
> > Hi, in the process to upload a new version of the vm to Debian, I've
> > been redoing the packaging and testing it a bit.
> > The results are available at
> > http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-squeak/packages/squeak-vm/trunk/debian/ or to anyone joining to the collaborative project to maintain squeak in Debian:
> > https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-squeak/
> 
> Excellent, thanks!
> 
> > 
> > This is a brief collection of the problems I got after testing:
> > - The scripts squeak & squeak.sh don't work in Debian (or don't do it
> > for me)
> > 
> > - Gstreamer and Pango plugins segfault in amd64, so any image using them
> > will segfault in this architecture. So latest version of etoys will have
> > this problem.
> 
> I can confirm this. I believe that there are some underlying issues with
> SurfacePlugin that affect Pango and possibly others on 64-bit hosts.
> No fix is available at the present time.
> 
> I just realized that we don't have a Mantis report for this issue, so
> I added one: http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7433
> 

ok

> > - There are lintian problems with the FFI plugin, the error is explained
> > here: http://lintian.debian.org/tags/shlib-with-non-pic-code.html and
> > some possible workarounds are available
> > http://sam.zoy.org/blog/2007-04-13-shlib-with-non-pic-code-have-inline-assembly-and-pic-mix-well
> 
> Note also that FFI does not yet work on 64-bit systems:
>   http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7237
> Fixing this will also correct the lint warnings that you are seeing.
> 


I don't think so. I saw these errors in i386. I didn't tested this
plugin in amd64.


Regards.
José L.
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