Discussion about the Alice programming system

emil artin | 25 Mar 2009 16:32

Alice in AIX-land

Hi,

I'm trying to get  a minimal version of Alice 1.4 on AIX running.
I have downloaded the following source files and compiled them according to "readme":

1) seam-1.4.tar.gz
2) alice-1.4.tar.gz
3 )alice-runtime-1.4.tar.gz

Compilation and installation worked smoothly just out of the box!!
After setting the environment variable ALICE_HOME I tried to start
alice (in text mode) and got the following messages:

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# alice
uncaught exception:
  BLOCK(UNIQUESTRING=110, 2)[0]
    CHUNK(15)[0]=' <at> Pickle.IOError'
    INT[1]=60750882
  ENDBLOCK
backtrace:
- Load lib/system/Boot
- Link lib/system/Boot
- Start x-alice:/tools/Toplevel
Alarm clock
---------------------------------------------

Am I missing something? Any help is very much appreciated!
I am using gcc 4.2.4 on AIX 5.3 (PowerPC_POWER5) a compiling a 32-bit version of Alice.

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Andreas Rossberg | 25 Mar 2009 18:30

Re: Alice in AIX-land

emil artin wrote:
> Compilation and installation worked smoothly just out of the box!!
> After setting the environment variable ALICE_HOME I tried to start
> alice (in text mode) and got the following messages:
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> # alice
> uncaught exception:
>   BLOCK(UNIQUESTRING=110, 2)[0]
>     CHUNK(15)[0]=' <at> Pickle.IOError'
>     INT[1]=60750882
>   ENDBLOCK
> backtrace:
> - Load lib/system/Boot
> - Link lib/system/Boot
> - Start x-alice:/tools/Toplevel
> Alarm clock
> ---------------------------------------------
>   

That looks like it cannot find the boot component at the expected place. 
What did you set ALICE_HOME to? It should point to the alice 
subdirectory in your installation, i.e. the one containing compiler/, 
lib/, and tools/. Double-check that there is a proper Boot.alc in 
lib/system/ under that home.

I'm surprised that you actually get that far. We have never used that 
architecture.

> PS: Is Alice still alive?

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