Thanks so much for all the help. Backstory - About a week ago, I got the original compiled, learning about autoconf and make a bit along the way. I turned on A

Thanks so much for all the help. Backstory - About a week ago, I got the original compiled, learning about autoconf and make a bit along the way. I turned on ALL of the debugging options to try to figure it out. Stoical is a variant of Forth from BEFORE Fig-Forth, so I didn't even realize it was working at first. It uses = to print, not . which took a while to figure out. Once the penny dropped, and I had it working, I was able to turn debugging back off and find that it works pretty much out of the box. I replicated it on a new Debian 3 VM and it does indeed do so. Unfortunately, GIT doesn't come with Debian 3, and my attempts to compile it ran into far too many prerequisites, including zlib, Tcl/TK, autoconf (which requires m4, but a newer m4), eventually I quit that approach. How it works: There's a small set of built-in words, which it then uses to bootstrap an interpreter (14 words long) which then loads in the rest of the language. All of this works right out of the box in Debian 3. The executable compiled under Debian 11 starts to run, but can't bootstrap itself. Interestingly, the image compiled under Debian 3 does work in it's place.