Re: [gforth] Building from source but script.fs not transfered?

[Philip Smith]

Thank you Bernd!

 What you have told me then just confirms what i already thought was going on!  Thank you!

 I want to also say keep up the excellent work!  I have been using this stuff every day for years now but i do not often let others know what i am doing.  So I want you and the other Gforth developers to know that you all are doing great stuff in my mind!  Please keep it up!  

 I may decide to not do much testing of the 0.7.9 Gforth but instead fall back to maybe 0.7.3.  I us this stuff in some production type places.  I have been using socket.fs and script.fs and string.fs.  So to that end i may just keep using the versions of those pieces of code that i was using with the exception of string.fs as it seems to already be in version 0.7.0.  The first problems i was having was finding the source code because .fpath did not have the correct locations for them on my first experiences with raspbian wheezy debian.  This seems to be changed now and .fpath seems to be pointing to the correct locations.  Note i have been installing gforth via apt-get install gforth.  I have also been learning linux so using things like tar balls and dpkg stuff is getting easier for me.  Bernd I noticed you have mentioned a post of mine from the Raspberry pi forums about installing a newer version of gforth ( ver 0.7.2) so if that post needs changing let me know.  It is the post under the name harrypower.  That is my other name on many forms.  Anyways keep going Forth!  

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 7:40 AM, Bernd Paysan <address@hidden> wrote:

Am Sonntag, 22. Juni 2014, 23:56:41 schrieb Philip Smith:

> Hello Gforth
>    I decided to start using the more current branch of gforth in my
> projects.

Fine, welcome as beta tester - please report bugs and feature requests.

>  So i needed to use the BUILD-FROM-SCRATCH command after pulling
> the git repo from this address: git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gforth.git
>    Gforth installed its files at /usr/local/share/gforth/0.7.9_20140402/ so
> you can see the version i am on.  I started to use it but found out that
> script.fs was not transferred to this
> /usr/local/share/gforth/0.7.9_20140402/ directory.  I know i can just copy
> the script.fs from the git that i have also stored locally after pulling
> it.  My question is why is script.fs not transferred to be in the fpath for
> Gforth?  Is that just some mistake.

Yes, it's just an omission. I've added that (and another file that should be
installed and packaged) to Makefile.in.

>  I know i got several errors when
> building from scratch so i figured some stuff never completed but gforth
> works fine so far!

Some stuff requires dependent libraries, and maybe also is obsolete (like
libffi.fs and ffcall.fs).

--
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://bernd-paysan.de/

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