well, dear drmeister,
i just spent a week's worth of my spare time to try and build clasp to familiarize myself with this project. but it isn't working very well.
part of the problem is that 2 computers i have available, a mac laptop and a linux (ubuntu-12.04) box, don't have a modern enough os to support compilation of the code. i'm not willing to do another os upgrade for this, as this usually causes much more trouble than it is worth. so i worked on getting gcc-4.8.4 to build on both platforms, and linux looks more promising for now.
after many misadventures, i'm now at the point where on linux, i'll type "make" in the git clone of externals-clasp , but it bombs out as follows:
... common.copy /opt/clasp/150607/externals-clasp/build/release/share/boost-build/tools/symlink.py common.copy /opt/clasp/150607/externals-clasp/build/release/share/boost-build/tools/qt4.jam ...updated 309 targets... make[3]: Leaving directory `/opt/clasp/150607/externals-clasp' make boehm-setup make[3]: Entering directory `/opt/clasp/150607/externals-clasp' (cd boehm-7.2; \ export ALL_INTERIOR_PTRS=1; \ CFLAGS="-DUSE_MMAP" \ ./configure --enable-shared=no --enable-static=yes --enable-handle-fork --enable-cplusplus --prefix=/opt/clasp/150607/externals-clasp/build/common;) /bin/sh: 3: ./configure: not found make[3]: *** [boehm-setup] Error 127 make[3]: Leaving directory `/opt/clasp/150607/externals-clasp' make[2]: *** [setup] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/clasp/150607/externals-clasp' make[1]: *** [allnoget] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/clasp/150607/externals-clasp' make: *** [all] Error 2
so what would be the advice to get the configure file to be generated ? this does not seem to just run out of the box.