Hi ng0, I've been on holidays and I didn't checked my emails. Sadly, in fact there is a regression with qemu version 2.6 onwards, I filed a bug report to qemu team but they didn't investigated yet. For the moment the only solution is to: 1. Use older qemu ; 2. Usse Bochs. This issue was reported here: https://github.com/narke/colorForth/issues/2 I'm also writing another implementation of colorForth in C but it's not finished yet. Regards. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [bug#25728] [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add colorforth. > Local Time: July 23, 2017 10:35 AM > UTC Time: July 23, 2017 8:35 AM > From: ng0@infotropique.org > To: Ricardo Wurmus > ng0 , 25728@debbugs.gnu.org, Konstantin Tcholokachvili > > Ricardo Wurmus transcribed 4.0K bytes: >> >> Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> >> > Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> > >> >> It won’t work when it’s in the store because we cannot write to the >> >> store. Even after copying it out of the store and changing permissions >> >> it would simply crash. This could be a problem with my Libreboot >> >> machine, but the first problem is bad enough. >> >> >> >> If the software cannot be used when it is installed to the store then I >> >> don’t think it should be in the store at all. I think we should drop >> >> this patch as the package is not actually usable. > > I can confirm the crashes on coreboot. > Last October (patch date) is a while back so I can"t be sure if > my memory of colorforth working on vendor BIOS is correct. > >> >> What do you think? > > I have another theory: We both don"t know how this is supposed > to be used and the example on the github page is not helping. > > I CC"d the author of the software. Konstantin, do you know if we are doing anything > obviously wrong in what we"ve tried in this bug/qa thread? > >> > The alternative is to also install a wrapper script to “bin” that >> > essentially does this: >> > >> > #!/bin/sh >> > qemu-system-i386 -snapshot -boot a -fda $prefix/share/colorforth/cf2012.img >> > >> > It still crashes for me but at least it doesn’t complain about store >> > permissions. If you can get this to run on your computer then please >> > send a final patch that incorporates all of these suggestions. >> > Otherwise I think it may not be worth spending more time on a toy >> > package like this. >> > >> > What do you think? >> >> FWIW here’s the latest version of the diff: >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> diff --git a/gnu/packages/forth.scm b/gnu/packages/forth.scm >> index 6d66faf5d..4ab8f20a9 100644 >> --- a/gnu/packages/forth.scm >> +++ b/gnu/packages/forth.scm >> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ >> ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU >> -;;; Copyright © 2016 ng0 >> +;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 ng0 >> ;;; Copyright © 2016 Sou Bunnbu >> ;;; >> ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. >> @@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ >> #:use-module ((guix licenses) #:prefix license:) >> #:use-module (guix packages) >> #:use-module (guix download) >> + #:use-module (guix git-download) >> #:use-module (guix build-system gnu) >> + #:use-module (gnu packages assembly) >> #:use-module (gnu packages m4)) >> >> (define-public gforth >> @@ -58,3 +60,42 @@ and history. A generic virtual machine environment, vmgen, is also >> included.") >> (home-page "https://www.gnu.org/software/gforth/") >> (license license:gpl3+))) >> + >> +(define-public colorforth >> + (let ((commit "b518ff966955f0b196e7bb8f85337284fa23e29e") >> + (revision "1")) >> + (package >> + (name "colorforth") >> + (version (string-append "0.0.0-" revision "." (string-take commit 7))) >> + (source (origin >> + (method git-fetch) >> + (uri (git-reference >> + (url "https://github.com/narke/colorForth.git") >> + (commit commit))) >> + (sha256 >> + (base32 >> + "1q5szb9yi3nspbvnq0js6w24sb936ahjk828il760p0xpj5dsl45")))) >> + (arguments >> + `(#:tests? #f >> + #:phases >> + (modify-phases %standard-phases >> + (delete "configure) ; No configure script >> + (replace "install ; No install target >> + (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys) >> + (install-file "cf2012.img" >> + (string-append (assoc-ref outputs "out") >> + "/share/colorforth/")) >> + #t))))) >> + (native-inputs >> + `(("nasm" ,nasm))) >> + (build-system gnu-build-system) >> + (home-page "https://github.com/narke/colorForth") >> + (synopsis "Native 32-bit colorForth for PCs, Bochs and Qemu") >> + (description >> + "Colorforth is a @code{colorForth} implementation written in x86 >> +assembly. It is a dialect of Forth that uses color to replace punctation, >> +includes its own operating system and produces extremely compact programs. >> +Applications compile from pre-parsed source. Colorforth applications can be >> +run using @code{Bochs} and @code{Qemu}. It is adapted from >> +@url{http://sourceforge.net/projects/colorforth, colorforth}.") >> + (license license:public-domain)))) >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> >> >> -- >> Ricardo >> >> GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC >> https://elephly.net >> >> > > -- > ng0 > GnuPG: A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588 > GnuPG: https://n0is.noblogs.org/my-keys > https://www.infotropique.org https://krosos.org