[PLUG] Building Squeak from source

Phil Tomson ptkwt at aracnet.com
Thu May 16 18:31:04 UTC 2002


On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 09:45, Scott Staples wrote:
> I haven't gotten a chance to check squeak out, but have you tried a binary?
> (I know, I know, but sometimes you have to...)

Yes, though I'm running Gentoo Linux and believe in building from source
whenever possible ;-) I think I'll resort to downloading a binary and
save time.

I did trace the problem to another script that configure calls called
mkMake, in case anyone wants to search further....

Phil

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Tomson [mailto:ptkwt at aracnet.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 9:34 AM
> To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> Subject: [PLUG] Building Squeak from source
> 
> 
> I was inspired by Ken Dickey's talk last night at the advanced topics
> meeting.  I downloaded the Squeak source tarball and I'm trying to build
> it, but it seems that the configure script hangs up at right after
> printing this message:
> checking whether doubles are stored in Squeak order... no
> 
> After that it seems to get stuck in a loop and uses up 98% of my CPU
> according to top.
> 
> Anybody else try this with better success?
> 
> Phil
> 
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