Happy New Year!
I just downloaded and built version 9.0.0 on Solaris 8
and these are a few thoughts.
# Building under Linux, Solaris, and other Unix derivatives.
create make targets 'check' and 'test' which are synonyms
and run the qa-* scripts. The qa-* scripts along with any
related information should be relocated to a subdirectory
'test' in the source distribution.
The qa-* scripts should look for the newly built newLISP
executable in .. rather than /usr/bin/newlisp since newlisp
should not/may not have been installed yet, so:
#!../newlisp
rather than:
#!/usr/bin/newlisp
The default installation location for the newlisp executable
should be /usr/local/bin rather than /usr/bin. On the systems
I administer /usr/bin is used for rather static programs provided
as part of the core distribution and is not used for add-on
applications or utilities. In the specific case of Sun Solaris,
the programs in /usr/bin are checked using md5sums against Sun's
database to insure that the programs haven't been compromised
by a rootkit. By keeping /usr/bin free of add-on programs it is
easier to validate the programs.