On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 09:50:29AM +0200, Luke Gorrie wrote: > On 15 April 2017 at 09:12, Alistair Grant <akgrant0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 06:43:39AM +0200, Luke Gorrie wrote: > > The latest stable image release is Pharo-50771.image. > > The latest stable VM source release is pharo-vm-2016.02.18. > > These two releases are not compatible: This interpreter (vers. 6505) > cannot > > read image file (vers. 6521). > > Is this from a VM you built yourself? > > > This is a VM built from source during packaging for NixOS Linux. > > > What's the output of: > > $ pharo --version > > > Here it is: > > > $ pharo-vm-nox --version > 3.9-7 #1 Tue Mar 28 16:26:45 UTC 2017 gcc 5.4.0 [Production ITHB VM] > NBCoInterpreter NativeBoost-CogPlugin-EstebanLorenzano.21 uuid: > 4d9b9bdf-2dfa-4c0b-99eb-5b110dadc697 Apr 5 2016 > NBCogit NativeBoost-CogPlugin-EstebanLorenzano.21 uuid: > 4d9b9bdf-2dfa-4c0b-99eb-5b110dadc697 Apr 5 2016 > https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm.git Commit: > ba1aa855f546b084ec0ebdeb85a36f2352f97b49 Date: 2016-02-18 17:17:13 +0100 > By: Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> Jenkins build #15040 > Linux localhost 4.4.23 #1-NixOS SMP Fri Sep 30 08:20:43 UTC 2016 i686 GNU/ > Linux > plugin path: /nix/store/ > 5bm2pwrkd1083sb1f1rf0jz20cw87yya-pharo-vm-i386-2016.02.18/lib/ > pharo-vm-i386-2016.02.18/ [default: /nix/store/ > 5bm2pwrkd1083sb1f1rf0jz20cw87yya-pharo-vm-i386-2016.02.18/lib/ > pharo-vm-i386-2016.02.18/] > > > Note that the date 2016-02-18 corresponds with the latest non-spur source > tarball release at http://files.pharo.org/vm/src/vm-unix-sources/ > > > I just downloaded: > > $ curl http://get.pharo.org/50+vm | bash > > And it started without problem. > > > I *think* the difference is that you are downloading the VM as a binary and I > am downloading it as source code, and we get different versions because > pharo.org is regularly shipping updated binaries but not updating the source > code releases at the same time. So the source releases lag behind over time > and > now it's at the point that they can't run the 5.0 image.
How about trying: $ git clone https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm.git $ cd pharo-vm $ git checkout b8ec25a570d7539653e1d793e97609adb509aaed and build that? It should be the source code for the binary VM on get.pharo.org. Cheers, Alistair
