Comment 7 for bug 1211414

John Watkins <email address hidden> writes:

> On 08/12/2013 10:52 PM, Stas Boukarev wrote:
>> You are reading the wrong section, 1.1 Quickstart is under 1. BINARY
>> DISTRIBUTION, and you've got a source distribution, which is described
>> in the section 2. Moreover, ./run-sbcl.sh won't create output/,
>> ./make.sh will.
>>
>> ** Changed in: sbcl
>> Status: New => Invalid
>>
> How does a new user tell if they have source or binary distribution?

That new user will (presumably) have downloaded something from
<http://www.sbcl.org/platform-table.html>. On that page, all the binary
distributions have the string "binary" in their name, and the source
distribution has the string "source" in its name. (Or they might have
downloaded something from sourceforge directly, in which case the same
naming convention applies).

If that's not how you got whatever it is you got, can you tell us where
you got it from?

Christophe