[Vm-dev] NativeBoost installation woes with Mac OS X

[Henrik Sperre Johansen]

On 30.09.2011 18:20, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>
> On 30 September 2011 18:11, David T. Lewis<lewis at mail.msen.com>  wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 04:36:43PM +0200, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>> On 30 September 2011 11:42, Lawson English<lenglish5 at cox.net>  wrote:
>>>> Hi. On an Intel Mac running Mac OS X 10.6.8, I followed the instructions to
>>>> install a NativeBoost VM found here:
>>>> http://code.google.com/p/nativeboost/wiki/Installation. I downloaded the
>>>> latest Mac NBCog VM, ??and ran into an error after evaluating NBInstaller
>>>> install.
>>>>
>>>> I'm using the 4.3alpha-11636.image file. The 4.2 image gives a different set
>>>> of errors but also wont install:
>>>>
>>>> The progress bar window says: Compiling NativeBoost-Core-IgorStasenko.36
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The window title is "Syntax error" with a split text field. The top field
>>>> contains:
>>>> nbExternalStructure Fields parsing spec parseFields:byte
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The bottom field has a red error message embedded in this line:
>>>>
>>>> ?? ?? ?? ??stream peek == #Invalid literal character ->; ifTrue: [ stream next
>>>> ].
>>>> ?? ??].
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Help?
>>>>
>>> I didn't tested an installation in squeak 4.2 images.
>>> It looks like there is a change in parser which don't likes the
>>> following syntax:
>>>
>>> #( a; b ; c)
>>>
>>>
>>> imo, this is correct syntax. a ';' should be converted to #; symbol.
>>>
>> Squeak 3.6:
>> #( a; b ; c) ==>  #(#a #; #b #; #c)
>>
>> Squeak 3.8:
>> #( a; b ; c) ==>  #(#a #; #b #; #c)
>>
>> Squeak trunk:
>> #( a; b ; c) ==>  #(#a #';' #b #';' #c)
>>
>> PharoCore-1.3-13173:
>> #( a; b ; c) ==>  #(#a #';' #b #';' #c)
>>
>> Dave
>>
> ok, then problem is in something else.
> Lawson, could you please paste the full method source with problematic code?
>

#; inspect -> Syntax error though...

ps.
stream peek == #;

sure it's not a typo and should be
stream peek == $;  ?

Cheers,
Henry