Re: [Help-smalltalk] OS X binaries for school

[Duke Normandin]

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, SJS wrote:

> begin  quoting Duke Normandin as of Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 05:50:34AM -0700:
> [snip]
> > Having said that, the GST port seems to be broken for certain
> > functionality. Compiling from source - using git - didn't solve
> > anything for me. YMMV.
> >
> > If you get it to compile cleanly, AND are fortunate to have a
> > completely functional GST, I would be much obliged if you would pass
> > on to me exactly how you did it. TIA..
>
> Last time I did this dance, it worked, aside from bizarre behavior in
> the floating-point tests. (By hand, it worked fine, but running the test,
> it went off into la-la land. I got busy after that I didn't pursue it.)

Kinda like Toyota with their accelerator pedals ;)

> It's about time I did an update and tried again. I'll try to use script
> at the start, just in case it all goes correctly. :)

Cool! I appreciated your time and trouble. You would have thought that
OS X would have hit the "Big League" even GNU-Smalltalk to deserve _a
little more_ attention, but apparently not everyone feels the same
way. Maybe it's because Objective-C is too close a competitor to
Smalltalk? Whatever...! Much appreciated...
-- 
duke