Cannot build current system (MacOS X 10.3.9, PowerPC)

[Brian Rice]

On Jun 17, 2006, at 9:13 AM, Tim Olson wrote:

> I hadn't been keeping up-to-date with slate changes, so I decided  
> to grab a clean version.  But when it comes time to bootstrap the  
> libraries, the bootstrap fails during loading of src/lib/ 
> directory.slate (using either main or alpha repositories):
>
> ====
>  Loading P'src/lib/directory.slate'
> Warning: You tried to call load: on something that didn't describe  
> a file. Hopefully the argument you passed what was you wanted. Here  
> it is.
>
> (the Warning message is repeated a number of times, then I get:
>
> The following condition was signaled:
> The method #AutoLoader was not found for the following arguments:
> {lobby}
>
> No restarts are available.
>
> Enter 'help.' for instructions.
> Debug:
> The following condition was signaled from within the debugger:
> The method #repl was not found for the following arguments:
> {lobby}
> Debug:
> The following condition was signaled from within the debugger:
> The method #Image was not found for the following arguments:
> {lobby}
> Debug:
> The following condition was signaled from within the debugger:
> The stream has reached its end, unhandled.Debug:
> ====
>
> And the final two lines are then repeat until I kill it.

Yeah, I can reproduce this; I hope therefore that the relevant change  
is recent. I'll work on tracking this down.

> First thing I notice: what is the "P" doing on the front of all the  
> path names being loaded?  This leads me to think that perhaps the  
> kernel.big.32.image may be corrupt.

Wow, you haven't used Slate in a while; the P-prefix just denotes  
that a printed string represents a path name. :)

--
-Brian
http://tunes.org/~water/brice.vcf

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