Since I could not find anything about it on google. The only way to move
> I know it's been a while, but the newsserver was down and so I missed
> the message.
>
> I fixed the issues with the launcher scripts, I did not bump the
> revision of the portfile, though. This little fix does not justify a 7
> hours rebuild.
>
> The problem that you can't precompile as a normal user is not a bug but
> a feature. Since EiffelStudio is installed in a global directory,
> ordinary users don't have write access there. So in order to precompile
> the library launch estudio as root (sudo estudio). I wonder how this is
> handeled on Linux.
>
> I couldn't figure out the linker problems when freezing a project that
> uses the precompiled vision library. I posted on several mailinglists,
> but no answer. I suspect this is another size limit of some kind, since
> the preobj.o is over 100 MB in size...
>
> Jann
>
> Peter Gummer wrote:
>> Hi Jann,
>>
>> Manu suggested that you might be interested in some of the issues that I
>> reported in the last message below.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Peter
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Gummer"
> <
p-gummer@...>
>> To: <
es-devel@...>
>> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 11:53 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Es-devel] Anyone building 6.0 release for OS X?
>>
>>
>>> I had assumed that Jann would read this list, but I'll forward this
>>> message to him.
>>>
>>> There are hundreds of errors freezing a project that uses the
>>> precompiled vision2. They are all similar to this:
>>>
>>> /usr/bin/ld:
>>>
> /Applications/MacPorts/Eiffel60/precomp/spec/macosx-ppc/EIFGENs/vision2/W_code/preobj.o
>>> malformed object, illegal reference (reference to a symbol stub not at
>>> the start of the stub from section __TEXT,__text) relocation entry
>>> (6938622))
>>>
>>> - Peter Gummer
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Emmanuel Stapf [ES]"
>>> <
manus@...>
>>> To: "'Peter Gummer'" <
p-gummer@...>; <
es-devel@...>
>>> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 5:23 AM
>>> Subject: RE: [Es-devel] Anyone building 6.0 release for OS X?
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks for the update. Did you contact Jann directly to report those
>>>> issues? I just want to make sure that they do not get lost.
>>>>
>>>> Also I'm curious to know why the precompiled fails since adding the
>>>> `-mlongcall'
>>>> should have fixed the linker issues we were facing trying to link
>>>> EiffelStudio.
>>>> But maybe that's a different error?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Manu
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From:
es-devel-bounces@...
>>>>> [mailto:
es-devel-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Peter Gummer
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 1:37 AM
>>>>> To:
es-devel@...
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Es-devel] Anyone building 6.0 release for OS X?
>>>>>
>>>>> I wrote:
>>>>>> I'm doing "sudo port install eiffelstudio" right now. When
>>>>> it's done,
>>>>>> I'll report back to the mailing list how long it takes.
>>>>> On my 800 MHz G4, it took 7 hours and 10 minutes. Not too bad
>>>>> as an overnight job. Thanks to Jann for providing this!
>>>>>
>>>>> I noticed that it had not precompiled base and vision2. I did
>>>>> so manually, but first I had to "sudo chmod 777
>>>>> /Applications/MacPorts/Eiffel60/precomp/spec/macosx-ppc/".
>>>>>
>>>>> But of course, this being the PowerPC version, you can't
>>>>> really use precompiled libraries because you get linker
>>>>> errors. I forgot this, but I at least I've confirmed that
>>>>> this problem still exists.
>>>>>
>>>>> I notice that a finalised build of my Vision2 application is
>>>>> now 10.1 MB, whereas in 5.7 it was 7.4 MB. I've noticed that
>>>>> config.sh now uses -mlongcall in the ccflags variable. My app
>>>>> is now bigger, but it seems no slower. Also, I am now able to
>>>>> freeze it, which I was having difficulty doing in 5.7. This
>>>>> is an improvement.
>>>>>
>>>>> I like the new directory arrangement, with the EiffelStudio
>>>>> directories easily accessible at the top level rather than
>>>>> hidden inside EiffelStudio.app.
>>>>>
>>>>> There are a couple of mistakes in the EiffelLauncher script.
>>>>> The EiffelBuild and EiffelVision2_Demo packages don't work
>>>>> because build has been renamed to esbuilder and tour has been
>>>>> renamed to demo.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Peter Gummer
>>>
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