Hi Jon, > I look forward to try this ErsatzLisp, but I have no Java 1.6 available > yet. I tried to install it on Ubuntu, but I didn't succeed. I ended up > with a broken package, and haven't managed to clean up the mess yet. ;-)
Oh - too bad! Sometimes everything goes wrong. > Maybe you could write a note on this ErsatzLisp on the Forum News > section here: http://picolisp.com/5000/-2-B.html Yes, good idea. That's what that page is for after all. > I'm also curious about "bootstrapping the 64-bit version". What's in > it? I wrote a little about that in http://software-lab.de/INSTALL and http://software-lab.de/doc64/README. In a nutshell: While Ersatz PicoLisp should work right of the box (perhaps an illusion as we see in your case ;-), and Pil32 just needs a C compiler to build, does Pil64 need a running PicoLisp system to build the "*.s" files from the sources "src64/*.l". Now the build process started by (cd src64; make picolisp) is clever enough to fall back to "ersatz/picolisp" if there is no "bin/picolisp" yet. That's all. This assumes, however, that a Java runtime system is installed. If not, the pre-generated "*.s" files can be downloaded. The rationale behind that is: These "*.s" files are relatively large, and quite redundant as they can be easily built from the "src64/*.l" files. Until now we have only "*.s" files for the 'x86-64' architecture and 'linux' platform. But if there are more in the future, the release size would explode. Cheers, - Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picol...@software-lab.de?subject=unsubscribe
