[Vm-dev] SqueakVM trunk is broken since late April

Aleksej Saushev asau at inbox.ru
Thu Jan 20 01:25:32 UTC 2011


"David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> writes:

> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 10:05:30PM +0300, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
>>  
>>   Hello!
>> 
>> "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 08:34:14PM +0300, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
>> >>  
>> >>   Hello!
>> >> 
>> >> I'm trying to build VM from source and run into this:
>> >> 
>> >> Linking C executable squeakvm
>> >> CMakeFiles/squeakvm.dir/tmp/local/squeak-vm/work/squeak-vm/platforms/Cross/vm/sqVirtualMachine.c.o: In function `sqGetInterpreterProxy':
>> >> sqVirtualMachine.c:(.text+0x45e): undefined reference to `internalIsImmutable'
>> >> sqVirtualMachine.c:(.text+0x468): undefined reference to `internalIsMutable'
>> >> sqVirtualMachine.c:(.text+0x472): undefined reference to `primitiveFailFor'
>> >> sqVirtualMachine.c:(.text+0x47c): undefined reference to `classAlien'
>> >> sqVirtualMachine.c:(.text+0x486): undefined reference to `getStackPointer'
>> >> sqVirtualMachine.c:(.text+0x490): undefined reference to `sendInvokeCallbackStackRegistersJmpbuf'
>> >> sqVirtualMachine.c:(.text+0x49a): undefined reference to `reestablishContextPriorToCallback'
>> >> sqVirtualMachine.c:(.text+0x4a4): undefined reference to `classUnsafeAlien'
>> >> --- squeakvm ---
>> >> 
>> >> Going back in past, I've found that this was broken in r2203,
>> >> which introduced references to these symbols which in turn were never defined.
>> >> 
>> >> Could anyone at least shed the light on what is going on?
>> >
>> > Possibly you are compiling using the sources in platforms/unix/src. These
>> > are source files that were automatically generated from a VMMaker image
>> > at the time of the last official VM distribution. For this reason, they
>> > are out of date now with respect to the rest of the development platform
>> > sources. In this case, the platform source code is making references to
>> > things that are present in the up-to-date VMMaker sources, but that were
>> > not present at the time the platforms/unix/src/* files were created. This
>> > is the reason for the unresolved references in your build.
>> >
>> > In order to build a VM with the latest sources, please also use the most
>> > recent VMMaker from SqueakSource, and use this to generate your own source
>> > files. Usually (though not necessarily always), the most recent version
>> > of VMMaker will contain the Smalltalk code that matches the most recent
>> > development sources in Subversion.
>> >
>> > Having the generated sources in platforms/unix/src can be confusing, and
>> > there has been some discussion of moving the saved ./src files out of the
>> > main ./platforms directory tree in order to reduce confusion about this.
>> 
>> Is it possible update source and build instructions in repository?
>> I think it would be useful in view of upcoming new releases.
>
> A new VM build is planned for this month, and I would expect updates
> to occur at that time.

This is still not fixed. Is it possible to fix this in tree?
Is there any clear document describing how to get actual source?


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