Re: where to get binary to bootstrap on debian 13?

"Ethan Azariah" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.forth.gforth
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.
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