[OpenBIOS] Cygwin/Linux issues with openbios-devel-20040919-1800.tar.bz2

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Dwight Schauer <das at teegra.net> [040920 00:28]:
> I got the standalone forth from openbios-devel-20040919-1800.tar.bz2 to 
> build and run on Cgywin and Linux.
> 
> While building I did get this error (had the same problem on linux as well):
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target 
> `../../obj-x86/build/arch/unix/../../fs/libfs.a', needed by 
> `../../obj-x86/build/arch/unix/unix'.  Stop.
> make[1]: *** [sub-arch/unix-all] Error 2
 
Did you disable all filesystem support? Looks like a bug in the build
system. Thanks for reporting this.

> { ---------------- start clip ----------------------- }
> 0 > : star [char] * emit ;  ok
> 0 > : stars 0 ?do star loop ;  ok
> 0 > 5 stars ***** ok
> 0 > 10 stars **************** ok
> 0 > bye
 
vs:
 
> 0 > : star [char] * emit ;  ok
> 0 > : stars 0 ?do star loop ; star isn't unique.
> ok
> 0 > star * ok
> 0 > 5 stars stars: undefined word.
> 0 > bye


> That time I had a problem. Before I entered the "stars" line I hit up 
> arrow, and got the "0 > : star [char] * emit ;" back.
> That is what I'd expect. I then pressed up arrow again and got: "0 >" so 
> I figured I was on an empty line. After typing the definition for stars 
> again, I got the "star is not unique" warning message.

Sounds like a problem with the command line module (modules/cmdline.c)
 
> On linux it acted the same way.

I can't reproduce this on my system. What terminal are you
using?

Stefan