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Standard build process #121

Open blakemcbride opened 2 years ago

blakemcbride commented 2 years ago

Greetings,

It would be far cleaner and easier for someone to be able to build J in a more standard way such as:

./configure [Linux / BSD / Unix-like / Mac only] make make install

I fail to believe that this can't be done in a portable way.

blakemcbride commented 2 years ago

I see there is a PR for this. Great! I think this should be a top priority. Without it, J turns off a lot of potential new users. If the build procedure is too convoluted they just give up and erase the whole thing.

yewscion commented 2 years ago

I have done this exact couple steps a few times now (clone, run scripts under make2/, successful build, binary segfaults) multiple times now. Autotools would be an awesome boon to make packaging this awesome language easier.