paolo is helping Ang with some window build problems. he pauses in that quest to asks Ang "why not use linux?".
just fyi: i do a lot of teaching and consulting. it would greatly ease the introduction of GNU smalltalk to a broader community if there was a no hassle build functionality on windows. so please, i hope you all press on with resolving these bugs. t On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/09/2009 11:11 AM, Ang Beepeng wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I do not get what you mean. Which one do you think I should use? >> >> I followed instruction on http://smalltalk.gnu.org/download/cvs. I use git >> to get source into my directory. >> I assume after "git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/smalltalk.git", I will get >> gst-3.1. >> After "git checkout -b stable-3.0 origin/stable-3.0" to directory contain >> gst-3.1, I will get gst-3.0 stable. >> >> Is that correct? Am I getting the correct set of source code? > > Ok, I see. You're actually getting something like > > GNU Smalltalk version 3.1-c26f213 > > which you called 3.1. I thought you were referring to stable 3.1, sorry for > the misunderstanding. > > So, for 3.1 you're getting errors that --disable-generational-gc does not > fix. What version are you on? I only tested XP and Server 2003, maybe > Vista or Windows 7 are broken. > > Also, sorry for the possibly stupid question, but... why aren't you trying > Linux? You could still try Windows every now and then, but now you'd be up > and running. (Or maybe you have done so). > > Paolo > > > _______________________________________________ > help-smalltalk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk > -- there are those who call me... (dr) timm (menzies)? morgantown (39.6n, -79w), usa assoc prof csee, wvu http://menzies.us PROBLEM: Handling e-mail is very very very slow, resulting in inbox overflow. SOLUTION: Adopt the "http://five.sentenc.es"; policy: no responses longer than 5 sentences. It’s that simple. Care to try it? _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
