[Help-smalltalk] Some problems installing gst 2.2

[Michael Fellinger]

Hey list,

I'm just learning about smalltalk and found that gst is probably the best 
implementation there is atm for linux.
However, i've had some trouble installing, nothing critical, but still 
annoying.

First i just ran
./configure --prefix=/usr

which resulted in an error at the end of the make && make install

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Compiling 
/home/manveru/pkgbuilds/smalltalk/src/smalltalk-2.2/elc.13490/gst-mode.el...

While compiling toplevel forms in 
file /home/manveru/pkgbuilds/smalltalk/src/smalltalk-2.2/elc.13490/gst-mode.el:
  !! File error (("Cannot open load file" "comint"))
>>Error occurred processing gst-mode.el: Cannot open load file: "comint"

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which i solved by searching on google and finding out that most likely 
xemacs-sumo is missing for compilation of the el-file.
now i must say that xemacs-sumo is having its own long tail of dependencies 
and to make this pkg as leightweight as possible i decided to see what 
options ./configure has to offer.
i found --without-emacs

Yeah! just what i need - i thought...
some compilations and recheckings and make clean and extractions later i found 
that the option doesn't do anything at all, and so it forced me to install 
xemacs-sumo with everything (i think that in total it's got a 40MB, not to 
mention that it has further dependencies on X11...)

oh well, i hope this will be fixed in a new version, or at least with some 
patch... i guess it's just a mislead iffi or something :) [sorry for the 
lengthy bugreport]

the next thing, after installing - no infopages were installed... they just 
hang around in the /doc directory
the gst-manpage is there though.

hope this didn't sound too negative, i'm really fascinated by this language 
and gst works flawless, it's just my concerns for packaging GST for a broader 
audience (archlinux), since i'm sure they don't like the perspective of being 
forced to install emacs just for generating of some emacs-el-file they won't 
even use ;)


Thanks in advance
Michael 'manveru' Fellinger