Reported difficulty building from http://slate.tunes.org/downloads/slate-current.tar.gz

[Brian T. Rice]

Ken Causey <ken at kencausey.com> said:

> There's a bit of a problem using the
> http://slate.tunes.org/downloads/slate-current.tar.gz download reported
> by Levi Pearson today on IRC.  Understandably since this package is
> semi-automatically built from CVS then it does not include generated VM
> sources or images.  The user then is inclined to make get-alpha to get
> them.  But within short order when the alpha directory is updated and it
> gets out of sync with this snapshot and the user is unable to build.
> For example right now there are references in the alpha vm.c/vm.h to
> things that are not in the files in the slate-current download.  So the
> user is unable to build.
> 
> Either the user needs to be instructed that this is just a CVS snapshot
> that may need to be updated from CVS to be useful or the snapshot needs
> to include generated VM and image files that match.

That and we should make a cron-job under the slate account to "make tar" 
nightly so that we don't get nearly a month out of date. I'll make notes on 
the home page to the effect you suggest.