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Re: closure api problems
Aaron Patterson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 08:43:16PM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> Aaron Patterson wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 07:45:36PM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>>> Aaron Patterson wrote:
>>>>> I'm running 64bit OS X (Snow Leopard). Any help would be greatly
>>>>> appreciated!
>>>> I think Snow Leopard forbids exec permission on data memory.
>>>> You need to make sure that FFI_MMAP_EXEC_WRIT is set in closures.c.
>>> That seems to fix it. Is it safe to define that constant for all
>>> platforms? Or just Snow Leopard?
>> We could do it for all Sarwin.
>>
>>> Are you planning a permanent fix for master?
>> Not me, because I can't test it. Patches welcome.
>
> No problem. I can patch and test. How do I run the test suite?
>
> I apologize because I'm fairly new to the code base, and the test target
> seems to elude me.
"make check". You need dejagnu, the test harness, installed.
Andrew.