[Vm-dev] Linux vm default plugins directory

[Eliot Miranda]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

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> On 01.09.2010, at 21:12, Eliot Miranda wrote:
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> > Hi Wilhelm,
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K <bschwab at anest.ufl.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> >> A recurring theme is that I encounter a problem for which there is no
> explanation from the system, hack the vm sources to add some tracing, and
> correct the problem.  As a result, I end up building the vm from source and
> so tend to use a shell script that runs it.
> >>
> > Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the relevant directory.  Here's the script
> I use at Teleplace
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> The current "squeak" script fills in the plugins path, so there is no need
> to fiddle with LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>

If one has a plugin that depends on a secondary library then fiddling with
LD_LIBRARY_PATH can be necessary.


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> http://squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/trunk/platforms/unix/cmake/squeak.in
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> However, I occasionally too see a plugin that inexplicably does not want to
> load.
>

Inexplicably, or because some symbol is undefined?

cheers
Eliot


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> - Bert -
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