Re: where to get binary to bootstrap on debian 13?
"Ethan Azariah" <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2026, at 11:03 AM, Bernd Paysan wrote: > Am 11. August 2026 11:02:14 MESZ schrieb Ethan Azariah <[email protected]>: >>INSTALL.md says: >>- Gforth's build process is partially self-hosted, i.e. it needs a working >>- Gforth. For the tarball, everything needed to build a working Gforth is >>- included, but from git, you need to install at least an outdated version of >>- Gforth to build successfully. >>... >>- ## Build from tarball >>- >>- wget https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Snapshots/current/gforth.tar.xz >> >>debian 13 (trixie) has no gforth package, so i got the snapshot. however, it did not contain an executable gforth. where do i get one from? > > The tarball contains everything that needs Gforth. It doesn't contain > Gforth itself. That would be a bindist. it says "everything needed to build a working Gforth is included," and then *contrasts* it with the git source where it says a binary is needed. documentation issue. :) there is another line which says a binary is needed to build tarballs from savannah, but this tarball is from complang.tuwien.