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GNU poke – new interactive editor for binary data

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I'd really like to use it. But it's still almost impossible to build, and not packaged anywhere. poke itself is simple but it's underlying vm is not.

What's difficult about building it? Just curious.

  $ git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/poke.git
  $ ./bootstrap
  ...
  $ ./configure
  ...
  $ make
  ...
  gcc: error: ./pkl-tab.c: No such file or directory

Bookmarking it and will take a look once it's in my package manager's repos, at least; it looks neat.

pkl-tab.c is produced from pkl-tab.y and bison 3.6.0 is required "to improve the user's experience", after the doc.

./bootstrap doesn't even want to make a configure file for me.

This version of bison is not available in Debian Stable or Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

you just gotta try poking it

> not packaged anywhere

I've gone and packaged it in pkgsrc-wip, which hardly counts as an official package but it's something.

    curl http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc.tar.bz2 | tar -xjf -
    git clone git://wip.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrc-wip.git pkgsrc/wip

    cd pkgsrc/bootstrap
    ./bootstrap

    cd ../wip/poke-git
    /usr/pkg/bin/bmake install clean

    /usr/pkg/bin/poke

I'm sure that once poke has its first proper release it'll be picked up by the common package managers (and become easier to build from source).

Thank you sir!

That's exactly what I needed, thanks!

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