[Vm-dev] Cog on ARM

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi Boris,


> On May 30, 2020, at 1:11 PM, Boris Shingarov <boris at shingarov.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> To build the latest Cog VM with the ARM simulation plugins doesn't seem to work for me.  I thought maybe I had dirty state, so I started from a clean clone (this is the current tip of the Cog branch, 60973ef):
> 
> $ git clone  git at github.com:OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm.git
> $ cd opensmalltalk-vm
> $ cd build.linux64x64/gdbarm32
> $ ./conf.COG
> checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> checking target system type... arm-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> ...
> checking for working strncmp... yes
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile
> config.status: error: cannot find input file: `testsuite/Makefile.in'
> $ _
> Is this the supposed way?  Has anyone built ARM recently?
> 

Hmmm.  I build regularly but on MacOS.  I’ve not had occasion to try win6; or linux64.  Will try to have a look at this today.

> I build a fair amount of ARM code somewhat regularly on this machine, therefore I doubt this is some basic dysfunctionality of my dev environment.
> 
> My first reflex was to go and just hack into the problem, but if it doesn't even go this far out of the box, then I'd expect I am somehow wrong and I thought I'd ask before digging myself too deep into the wrong direction.  Also I've been having doubts, if these configure scripts were broken, people would be complaining?  does anyone do ARM?  (and by that I mean "develop the VM" for which you need the simulator)  Why isn't CI complaining?  does CI only cover Intel?  does CI only cover production-packaging?
> 
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