Ian, I cannot ignore what was never delivered to me - you might want to reconsider your logic in this connection. You might also note that #moduleName can check the OS, so "it will never work on Windows" is just plain wrong.
Later in the day I will revert to your vm and try 'odb' - I will admit to being less than optimistic, especially given what I "ignored" - make that never received. Bill -----Original Message----- From: Ian Piumarta [mailto:i...@vpri.org] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 2:25 AM To: Schwab,Wilhelm K Cc: laurent laffont Subject: Re: [Vm-dev] Fwd: loading library with FFI fails (was [Pharo-project] Linux vm: assertions and strategy) On Apr 8, 2010, at 11:40 PM, Ian Piumarta wrote: > I have no idea. I sent email to Bill with a suggestion but he ignored > me. I therefore have no information about whether there is something > funny in his Linux installation or whether there is a real problem in > the VM (which appears to work fine for me). I could be completely wrong about this. If so, please disregard. But... From the patch I am inferring that the odbc library specifies "module: '/usr/lib/libodbc.so'". This would indeed be a problem for three reasons. 1. Mine might be in /usr/local/lib, or might be a personally-compiled version to fix some issue with the system version. In either case I'm screwed. 2. I might be using Darwin, in which case '/usr/lib/libodbc.dylib' might be the only thing that would work -- or even '/System/Library/ Frameworks/ODBCFramework/Libraries/libodbc.dylib'. Same comment as before. 3. It will never work on Windows, even if some day Windows supplies an 'odbc.dll' that is 100% compatible with the Linux one. The usual way for the plugin to specify this library would be "module: 'odbc'" which should work perfectly in all the above cases using the latest VM (and explains why I could not reproduce the problem using a simpler test case). I'm happy to modify the VM to cater for this specific situation of an over-specified library name, but the real solution would be fix the primitive declarations in the ODBC plugin. Cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
