Install location for Gforth on debian only installs to version 0.7.0 location!

[irdvo]

Reported by [email protected], Jun 24, 2014

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Install gforth on debian as follows: sudo apt-get install gforth
2. Install and compile version 0.7.3 gforth from source.
3. Install ffl-gforth_0.8.0-1_all.deb from downloads page of google project for ffl.
4. At command line in debian enter: Gforth (note you should see version 0.7.3 not version 0.7.0 )
5. In gforth do following: include ffl/str.fs ( for string package ) this will produce an error that no directory or file is found.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? -I expected the ffl to install maybe in the newest gforth versions path or to install in all the gforth versions paths! -The path that is used to store ffl is /usr/share/gforth/site-forth/ but if it is stored at /usr/local/share/gforth/site-forth/ then this would work. -Note Gforth version 0.7.0 should be using /usr/local/share/gforth/site-forth/ and so when version 0.7.0 is upgraded to 0.7.3 then the ffl would be in the correct place if it was stored there but for some reason the debian package managers put parts of gforth into wrong directories.
-What i did was simply copied the files to /usr/local/share/gforth/site-forth/ffl/ directory . -This issue is complex because if you place the files at /usr/local/share/gforth/site-forth/ffl/ directory then version 0.7.0 will not work but newer versions will but if you put the files at /usr/share/gforth/site-forth/ffl/ then only version 0.7.0 will work.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? ffl-gforth_0.8.0-1_all.deb is the file i used with wget on my Debian Wheezy Raspberry Pi.

Please provide any additional information below. Thanks for this very useful resource!