RE: [clisp-list] configure and INSTALL missing from 2.36 tar ball

[Frank B. <fb...@fr...>]

> the file clisp-2.36-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-2.6.9.tar.gz
> which i've downloaded from 
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/clisp/clisp-2.36-x86_64-unk
> nown-linux-gnu-2.6.9.tar.gz?use_mirror=switch
> seems to be missing the files INSTALL and configure.
> Am i confused?  what is the purpose of 
> clisp-2.36-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-2.6.9.tar?

this is not the source file for recompiling it by yourself, but the compiled
result. If you just want to start CLISP this is fine, but if you want to
compile it yourself, you have to download the sources. Of course, the
sources are the same for every platform.

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Frank Buss, fb...@fr...
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