build fails with bigforth.fi not found

[mschuldt]

Building on Xubuntu fails with:

./bigforth -e ": :linux ; include forth.fb save-target forthker-linux cr bye"
Could not open image file /usr/local/lib/bigforth/./bigforth.fi
Makefile:109: recipe for target 'forthker-linux.fi' failed
make: *** [forthker-linux.fi] Error 255

[forthy42]

forthker-linux.fi is checked into the git repository. Trying to build it before building bigforth.fi can be caused by timestamp issues in the git repository. A

touch forthker-linux.fi

fixes that.

[mschuldt]

I can build it now, thanks!

[udexon]

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.forth/k7xql9kPgb0

On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 10:14:24 UTC+8, Liang Ng wrote:

I downloaded bigforth from

http://bernd-paysan.de/bigforth.html
http://bernd-paysan.de/bigforth-2.4.0.tar.bz2

The copy in github has a missing 'configure' file.

$ make
mv: cannot stat 'bigforth.fi': No such file or directory
Makefile:110: recipe for target 'bigforth.fi' failed
make: [bigforth.fi] Error 1 (ignored)
env LIBDIR=/usr/local/lib/bigforth SRC=/usr/local/lib/bigforth/src ./forthker-linux -e " include startup.fb ' .blk is .status warning on savesystem bigforth cr bye"
Makefile:110: recipe for target 'bigforth.fi' failed
make: * [bigforth.fi] Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Anyone still using bigforth?

Any other "native code Forth" anyone would recommend?

Thank you very much.

I solved the problem by copying "configure" from http://bernd-paysan.de/bigforth-2.4.0.tar.bz2 to the github bigforth directory.

Then ./configure; make; worked.

Thank you very much.

[MaxBarraclough]

Should this issue be marked as Closed?

[forthuser]

My assembled BigForth 2.5 in Deb package
https://github.com/forthuser/BigForth-