Re: where to get binary to bootstrap on debian 13?
"Ethan Azariah" <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Aug 12, 2026, at 7:17 PM, Bernd Paysan wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 12. August 2026, 00:03:19 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb > Ethan Azariah: >> On Tue, Aug 11, 2026, at 10:02 AM, Ethan Azariah wrote: >> > however, it did not contain an executable gforth. where do i get one >> > from? >> >> i remembered the old bindists are also on complang.tuwien. first to try was >> 0.4.0 binonly, the latest binary for linux. it lacks gforth.fi. with no >> matching source, only a dos bindist, so i tried that. it segfaulted after >> printing :1. next to try is compiling 0.7.3, in the morning. > > It is far easier to get the Debian package from the most recent Snapshot from > our Debian repository… You just need to read here beyond the tarball > installation: > > https://gforth.org/ ah, that might be nice i guess, though i'm not sure how long i'll be using debian. in any case, after i'd gone to the trouble of trying 0.4.0 and building 0.7.3, install-deps.sh downloaded and built 0.7.3 without even checking if gforth was in PATH. i intend to write a patch for INSTALL.md to make clear what is and isn't needed.