Snow Bugs... Closure
09/01/09 19:00
Previously, I noted a problem compiling SBCL 1.0.31 under Snow Leopard. I finally took the time to look at backtrace.c and discovered that the code uses inline assembly. So it wasn't a tools issue at all. However, when I fixed the opcode the build broke in another place -- Apple changed the interface to the machine context. I'll leave fixing that for the professionals.
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Snow Bugs...
08/29/09 14:09
This morning I came across my first major problem with Snow Leopard, more specifically with the toolset supplied with XCode 3.2.
Over on Planet Lisp, Christophe Rhodes announced the release of SBCL 1.0.31. I downloaded the source and tried to compile it. The build failed with the the assembler error : "suffix or operands invalid for `mov'" when trying to compile the file backtrace.c. I then tried to build the 1.0.30 source and it stoped at the same place with the same error. I booted off of my backup disk and built both releases using the XCode 3.1.3 toolset.
I then built 1.0.31 with the 3.1.3 toolset, copied the result to my Snow Leopard disk, rebooted, and tried to run the build tests. They, too, failed:
Invalid exit status: foreign.test.sh
test failed, expected 104 return code, got 1
Later, I'll do an entire build under Leopard and copy the result to Snow Leopard.
I filed a bug report under Radar, Apple's bug tracking system.
Over on Planet Lisp, Christophe Rhodes announced the release of SBCL 1.0.31. I downloaded the source and tried to compile it. The build failed with the the assembler error : "suffix or operands invalid for `mov'" when trying to compile the file backtrace.c. I then tried to build the 1.0.30 source and it stoped at the same place with the same error. I booted off of my backup disk and built both releases using the XCode 3.1.3 toolset.
I then built 1.0.31 with the 3.1.3 toolset, copied the result to my Snow Leopard disk, rebooted, and tried to run the build tests. They, too, failed:
Invalid exit status: foreign.test.sh
test failed, expected 104 return code, got 1
Later, I'll do an entire build under Leopard and copy the result to Snow Leopard.
I filed a bug report under Radar, Apple's bug tracking system.
Snow Leopard
08/29/09 00:11
Purchased Snow Leopard and iLife '09 tonight. Made two full backups of my 17" MacBook Pro to external drives. Earlier in the day I updated to the latest version of SuperDuper!.
I manually removed Dave, from Thursby Software. I've used Dave for years -- since Mac OS 9. I wonder how much I'll miss it? Being paranoid, I also removed Cisco's VPN software.
Installation of Snow Leopard took about 45 minutes.
I gained about 10GB of disk space. Explored whether or not to use the built-in Cisco VPN support. Decided that I prefer the flexibility of using Shimo. Reinstalled the Cisco VPN software.
Mail rebuilt its indexes on first startup but everything is working.
Had to re-enter my Airport password once on a subsequent restart. Don't know why.
System preferences didn't display its window the first few times I tried it from the Apple menu. I got into it via the AirPort icon in the menu bar; it's worked ever since.
Lost my registration for Lux Delux.
RapidWeaver 4.2.3 doesn't work; the beta does.
Parallels 4 looks to be working, but "prl_vm_app" is consuming almost 100% of the CPU. This doesn't seem to be a new problem, however.
Aquamacs, slime, and sbcl 1.0.30 as well as LispWorks 5.1.1 Personal passed a quick test.
While checking out Lisp, "prl_vm_app" stopped using so much CPU and is now behaving reasonably.
More adventures in the morning...
I manually removed Dave, from Thursby Software. I've used Dave for years -- since Mac OS 9. I wonder how much I'll miss it? Being paranoid, I also removed Cisco's VPN software.
Installation of Snow Leopard took about 45 minutes.
I gained about 10GB of disk space. Explored whether or not to use the built-in Cisco VPN support. Decided that I prefer the flexibility of using Shimo. Reinstalled the Cisco VPN software.
Mail rebuilt its indexes on first startup but everything is working.
Had to re-enter my Airport password once on a subsequent restart. Don't know why.
System preferences didn't display its window the first few times I tried it from the Apple menu. I got into it via the AirPort icon in the menu bar; it's worked ever since.
Lost my registration for Lux Delux.
RapidWeaver 4.2.3 doesn't work; the beta does.
Parallels 4 looks to be working, but "prl_vm_app" is consuming almost 100% of the CPU. This doesn't seem to be a new problem, however.
Aquamacs, slime, and sbcl 1.0.30 as well as LispWorks 5.1.1 Personal passed a quick test.
While checking out Lisp, "prl_vm_app" stopped using so much CPU and is now behaving reasonably.
More adventures in the morning...