i do not recommend compiling yabasic on gnewsense 2.3!

[menn]

gnewsense 2.3 deltah is a very nice distro. you can do an awful lot with it, although it's not as fully-featured, one might argue, as trisquel (it's very close. i use gnewsense as my primary distro these days.)

trisquel is what i normally recommend to everyone else- it makes many things easier, including connecting to wireless and apparently, compiling yabasic 2.9.9.

note that if all you want is to compile the main yabasic interpreter, gnewsense will compile it. it's when you want to compile the sdl module that it will make things very complicated.

it's possible that you may be able to copy some things from trisquel to make this work in gnewsense. you may be able to use the module compiled for trisquel in gnewsense, but i haven't tried it yet.

if you want a 100% free-libre distro that compiles yabasic 2.9.9 -and- its modules, please try trisquel 3.0 dwyn instead of gnewsense. it's much, much easier. (though you may have to install 60mb of libsdl-dev.) the sdl demo works, and it's very nice. - menn