Hi, 1.2.6 has serious problems with gcc/g++-4 and the new upstream version doesn't like libreadline5.
/usr/bin/gcc -c -m32 vmc.c vmc.c: In function ‘C_system’: vmc.c:482: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘strcpy’ vmc.c:483: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘strncpy’ vmc.c: In function ‘C_chdir’: vmc.c:503: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘strncpy’ /usr/bin/g++ -m32 -o kforth kforth.o ForthVM.o ForthCompiler.o vm.o vmc.o -lreadline -lncurses /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../../libreadline.so when searching for -lreadline /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../../libreadline.a when searching for -lreadline /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/bin/../lib/libreadline.so when searching for -lreadline /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/bin/../lib/libreadline.a when searching for -lreadline /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libreadline.so when searching for -lreadline /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libreadline.a when searching for -lreadline /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lreadline Regards, \sh