Directory bug on Windows

[Brian Rice]

On May 20, 2005, at 2:31 PM, Bryn Keller wrote:

> Ah, sorry. May I suggest renaming the command or being a little  
> more explicit in the README? Since it's called "make get-ALPHA", I  
> assumed it was just a convenience to save people who only worked  
> in /main the trouble of pulling the whole /alpha repository as  
> well.  Maybe it was a dumb assumption, but it seems worth a  
> sentence to prevent others from having the same problem.

I'd like to avoid it entirely. Perhaps I'll rename it "make latest- 
bootstrap" and just have it grab the sources + images and start a  
build for you.

> Anyway, when I get the new images, clean and rebuild the VM,  
> bootstrapping just hangs. I know this will last for at least four  
> hours, since I've gone through this experience already this morning  
> in /main before I killed it. Bill Sun seems to be having the same  
> problem.
>
> C:\lang\src\slate\alpha>wvm little.image
> Bootstrapping libraries... (this may take a while. Save the image  
> when done).
> Slate: Growing heap to 4786844 bytes.

Make sure you run "make clean ; make". And execute the exact VM that  
results (why is it named "wvm"? "vm" is the default name).