[self-interest] Linux VM: Sucess

[Michael Latta]

Russell,

Are your changes turned over to CVS for the Mac changes?  Will there  
be a packaged version prebuilt for those of us that are lazy?

Michael



On Oct 23, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Russell Allen wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> In the end it turned out to be really simple, requiring almost no  
> changes
> to the Self build system or code.
>
> After building a new snapshot from the CVS tree I now have a working
> virtual machine and snapshot combination running on Ubuntu 7.04,  
> 8.04 and
> OpenSuse.
>
> I also built a new MacOS X vm to run the new snapshot.
>
> (The new vms and snapshot aren't backwards compatible - you can't  
> run the
> new snapshot on an old vm or open an old snapshot in the new vms  
> without
> errors.  This is mostly GUI stuff - the change from Carbon to Quartz
> primitives on the Mac side and changes to how X is called on the Linux
> side)
>
> So Self now runs on Linux.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Russell
>
>
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:43:31 +1000, Russell Allen <mail at russell-allen.com 
> >
> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I retreated to Ubuntu 7.04 (and GCC 4.1) and rebuilt the linux VM  
>> from
>> the
>> CVS sources.
>>
>> The normal 4.3 barebones snapshot works with the exception of X  
>> (and thus
>> morphic). This isn't suprising as it needs modifications to let it  
>> know
>> it
>> is running on Linux.  I'm working through those.
>>
>> The 4.1-based gleibe.de/self image works as well, with partial  
>> success in
>> opening a morphic window.  Basically, after every X call (I think) it
>> freezes; _Flush brings very temporary relief.  If I execute something
>> like
>> "[ _Flush ] loop", I get a working but vvveeerrryyy ssslllooowwww  
>> morphic
>> interface.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Russell
>>
>>
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