readConsole (prim64) writeConsole (prim65) (undefinedreferences)

[Lyndon Tremblay]

The alpha vm.c is very out of sync now, removing references to
readConsole/writeConsole produces an unuseable slate (without repl)...
someone will have to generate these from their working image.

-lyndon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Dufresne" <dufrp at hotmail.com>
To: <slate at tunes.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: readConsole (prim64) writeConsole (prim65)
(undefinedreferences)


> >>Lee just applied a minor fix to remove that unwarranted dependency.
Update
> >>from CVS >and try again.
> I said:
> >Same as before.
> >I even tried to make a new cvs checkout slate in a temporary directory,
and
> >got the
> >same result as before. (did a get-alpha too)
> And now I add:
> Well, it looks like Lee have removed the code that was GENERATING
> readConsole
> and writeConsole in primitives 64 and 65 of vm.c, but they are still in
> current
> (December 14, 10h47) alpha/vm.c.
>
> I still don't clearly understand what they (readConsole,writeConsole) are.
> Are they ncurses calls? I am supposed to have ncurses Debian packages
> installed (ncurses-term, libncurses5, ncurses-base, ncurses-bin,
> libncurses5-dev,
> libncursesw5) so I don't see why vm.o is not linking correctly.
>
> --Paul
>
>