[Vm-dev] RFC: Unix 3.11.3-2116 VM

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Hello Ian,

Am 31.08.2009 um 11:08 schrieb Ian Piumarta:

> Unix VM hackers,
>
> I've published a preview of the 3.11.3 Unix VM for the amusement of  
> alpha testers everywhere.  Lots of things are bound to be broken and/ 
> or forgotten and/or incomplete and/or begging for improvement.  I'm  
> not quite finished tweaking but comments and suggestions are  
> definitely welcome at this stage!
>
> Grab sources from the trunk of Subversion, or look in
>
>  http://squeakvm.org/unix/alpha
>
> for archives of sources and binaries for i386 (Linux, NetBSD,  
> FreeBSD and Solaris) and powerpc (Darwin).  (Files ending in '.sh'  
> are self-extracting archives; run as shell script and follow  
> instructions.)
>
> The noticeable changes since 3.10 are:
>
> 0. Plugins have been regenerated from latest releases
>
> At least for those on squeaksource.  Any hiding in more obscure  
> places might still be stale.
>
> 1. New build process based on CMake
>
> See README in the source archive or platforms/unix/README.CMake in  
> the repository.
>
> 2. Different plugin and FFI library search strategy
>
> The default plugin directory is now the VM binary directory.  This  
> is correct for installed VMs where the binary lives alongside the  
> plugins in /usr/.../lib/squeak/version/squeakvm.  A launcher script  
> installed as /usr/.../bin/squeak figures out where the VM is (either  
> installed or running from a build directory) and adds a -plugins  
> option appropriately.  The script also does the pulse audio OSS  
> kludge if necessary.  (Another script, squeak.sh, is intended to  
> launch Squeak from a menu.  It's begging for improvement.)
>
> SQUEAK_PLUGINS (or the argument to -plugins) can be set to a colon- 
> separated list of places to look for plugins.  (Dave can debug one  
> plugin at a time using 'squeakvm -plugins bld/%n:/usr/lib/squeak/ 
> <version>'.)
>
> Libraries are searched only by whatever mechanisms dlopen() uses.   
> Applications that used to rely on the VM searching every nook and  
> cranny for FFI callouts may have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or whatever  
> local equivalent is provided, to ensure their external functions'  
> libraries are found.
>
> 3. New numbering scheme
>
> The VM is now numbered X.Y.Z-R where X.Y.Z are the version of  
> VMMaker used to generate the Interpreter and plugins, and R is the  
> Subversion repository revision of the Unix support code.  (The  
> archives are named X.Y.Z.R, just because rpmbuild is grumpy  
> otherwise.)
>
> Cheers,
> Ian

I have compiled the actual sources (2123) for Solaris SPARC today. I  
had two things to fix in order to compile under Solaris 10:
   1. unix/plugins/PseudoTTYPlugin/sqUnixPseudoTTYPlugin.c includes  
"sqUnixAsynchFile.h" but this file is not in the search path.
   2. unix/plugins/UUIDPlugin/sqUnixUUID.c includes <uuid.h>. I needed  
to change it to include <uuid/uuid.h>.

The next thing is that "gmake install" installs the plugins under .../ 
lib/squeak/3.10-6/. Shouldn't that be 3.11.3?
At the moment the squeak executable cannot find the plugins and dumps  
core. But that has nothing to do with the version number.

Regards
Andreas