Re: The Promise of Forth

Aleksej Saushev wrote:
> I have succeded in building todays CVS version on NetBSD with
> following changes:
> 
> --- Makefile.in.orig  2008-05-02 13:21:26.000000000 +0400
> +++ Makefile.in       2008-05-02 13:27:49.000000000 +0400
> @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 -832,7 +832,7 @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  sleep 1 #should make hpux-workaround unnecessary
>  
>  $(FORTH_GEN_ENGINE_FAST): prim-fast.b prims2x.fs
> -             GFORTH="$(FORTHP)" $(srcdir)/gfgen -fast
> +             GFORTH="$(PREFORTH)" $(srcdir)/gfgen -fast
>  
>  $(FORTH_GEN_ENGINE): prim.b prims2x.fs
>  GFORTH="$(PREFORTH)" $(srcdir)/gfgen

Thanks.

> But I still don't know, what is the purpose of libltdl.

To load libraries portably, even on more weird systems than FreeBSD. The
source of libltdl in the CVS tree is no longer used.

> And there's another problem: gforth spits garbage to the terminal,
> for instance, I see "bye^[[3Dbye^[[3Dbye" on exit. I.e. gforth
> doesn't handle terminal output correctly.  Could this be fixed?

Yes, use a vt100 compatible terminal. I'm quite sick with Unix' terminal
diversity, there is after all a Standard for terminals, and it builds on
vt100. <esc>[<num>D moves the cursor back by <num> characters.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
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