I did ~/opt/picoLisp/src64$ ~/opt/picoLisp/pil +
and the REPL came up. No, I don't have the old Ubuntu installed. That might have been another computer. So now I should do the soft links (mentioned in the INSTALL) if I want to make it global, correct? On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Alexander Burger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Larry, > > > I'm back again after a pause. Anyway, trying to install 15.11 but getting > > confused. The INSTALL file says to > > > > $ (cd src64; make) > > > > Good. That worked fine on my Ubuntu 15.10. Now it's in ~/opt/picoLisp/ > and > > the ~/opt/picoLisp/bin/ has picoLisp, pil, pilIndent, pilPretty, psh, > > replica, watchdog as executables. > > Perfect! This means that you successfully compiled the PicoLisp > executable. > > It must be that you have already installed a global PicoLisp from the > Ubuntu distribution, so that al that "bootstrapping" stuff is not > necessary. Once you have a picolisp running, it is used to build the new > one. > > > > pil doesn't work because it expects a > > soft link to /usr/bin/picolisp. But ./picolisp works and gives me a REPL. > > "./picolisp" is not the recommended way. You should be in the installation > directory (the one you executed (cd src64; make) from, and then do > > $ ./pil + > > or call > > $ ~/opt/picoLisp/pil + > > from any place. > > The point is to call 'pil' either with an absolute (like above) or a > relative path (e.g. ../foo/bar/pil +), or with the default path in which > case it resolves to /usr/bin/pil typically (i.e. the Ubuntu version in > your case). > > > > I'm assuming I'm not finished, right? > > No, you are :) > ♪♫ Alex > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe >
