Comment 2 for bug 1211414

That is exactly what I thought when I read the second line of the instructions for section 1.1. So I skipped running the ./run-sbcl.sh step. Instead I ran INSTALL_ROOT=/usr/local sh install.sh as root as the second sentence insturcted. But the shell script failed looking for the ouput/prefix.def. When I looked in the sbcl/ directory their was on output directory.

So I ran the ./run-sbcl.sh to see if I had somehow improperly copied the files using git. SBCL ran fine. Then I looked at the directories and found the missing diorectory and file. I ran them INSTALL script as directed and everyhing installed.

My installation was by someone unfamiliary with the SBCL installatin. So this report is from somone without any notions of what is expected. I simply read the instructions for Quick Start in Section 1.1 quite literaly. My result was an install failure.