Re: How to compile Bigloo on Debian Linux

Thanks to your help we managed to make a working container. If you have 
Docker, trying it out is as simple as:

$ docker run -it weinholt/bigloo

That command goes right into a Bigloo REPL. It's also possible to get a 
bash shell to explore the container's Linux file system by typing:

$ docker run -it weinholt/bigloo bash

The Docker Hub page is <https://hub.docker.com/r/weinholt/bigloo>.

The Git repo with the Dockerfiles is 
<https://github.com/weinholt/scheme-docker>. We have containers for lots 
of Scheme implementations and Bigloo is now part of that family. We'll 
discuss moving the infrastructure under 
<https://github.com/scheme-containers> and under a "schemers" account on 
Docker Hub ("scheme" is already taken).

>>>> WORKDIR /bigloo

> But this leads to a wrong path in bigloo's Makefile. The following "if"
> leads to a bootstrap step (because /bigloo exists in your docker build)
> and this bootstrap step cannot succeed

>          if [ -x $(BGLBUILBINDIR)/bigloo ]
> 
> This line contains a typo. It should be
> 
>          if [ -x $(BGLBUILDBINDIR)/bigloo ]

Well spotted. I believe this is what caused our problem. By coincidence, 
we chose /bigloo as the build directory. Since directories normally have 
execute permission, [ -x /bigloo ] evaluated to true.

> You can add a fixing sed command to your script.

I solved the problem by using /build/bigloo instead of /bigloo as the 
build directory :)

> Manuel,
> can you please fix this in github?

What is the official Bigloo repo by the way - is it 
<https://github.com/manuel-serrano/bigloo>? We could add that 
information to <https://github.com/manuel-serrano/bigloo>.