Just thought I would post the way I built gforth 0.6 on my Eee on the
stock Xandros as I recall there were certain difficulties.
This mainly is the result of the stock Xandros coming with the Eee not
quite being as 'typical' as the other linux distros out there.
There are a lot of tools missing. Specifically GCC, m4, autoconf,
automake which are needed for this task.
To build gforth with ffcall :
1. Get the tarball for gforth and ffcall
2. Point your /etc/apt/sources.list to your nearest debian mirror
3. apt-get update, then install build-essential, m4, autoconf,
automake. DO NOT UPGRADE YOUR DISTRO.
4. remember to comment out the reference to debian in sources.list
after you finish otherwise the next apt-get upgrade you do may wreck
your xandros install.
with this you should then be able to proceed to make ffcall and then
gforth successfully the usual way (this works on 0.6.2 and the
snapshot of 0.6.9).
I know of no other missing tools that are needed but if anyone spots
anything else that I may have missed, please let me know.
I know, perhaps I should junk the stock xandros on my Eee but at the
moment I have just chosen to work around it.
Robert Spykerman
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