Cog on FreeBSD (Re: [Vm-dev] Re: [squeak-dev] Re: Cog on linux)

[Nicolas Cellier]

2010/7/15 Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn at stonehenge.com>

>
> >>>>> "Frank" == Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at angband.za.org> writes:
>
> Frank> /usr/home/frank/temp/platforms/unix/vm/sqUnixHeartbeat.c:383: error:
> Frank> PTHREAD_ERRORCHECK_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP' undeclared here (not in a
> function)
>
> Frank> FreeBSD's pthread.h doesn't contain this #define. In fact, nothing
> in
> Frank> /usr/include does. I'll investigate further!
>
> Ewww.  Why do people presume everything's Linux like that?
>
>
Because Smalltalkers are happy to be immune to this kind of detail behind
their vm?
Because documentations about standards are not that cheap for unpaid people?
Because there is not enough manpower and such community project has to work
by gradual error/correction cycles rather than planned development?

Nicolas


> I've seen some tun/tap code like that too.  Yup, tun/tap have been
> ported everywhere (even works on my OSX box), but then people use
> Linux'isms on top of that, and I can't use it (yes, I'm looking at you,
> "socat").
>
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