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1 | Guile Installation Guide |
2 | Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Free software Foundation, Inc. | |
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4 | Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies | |
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10 | Permission is granted to distribute modified versions | |
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12 | under the above conditions, provided also that they | |
13 | carry prominent notices stating who last changed them, | |
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15 | of the Free Software Foundation are approved by the Foundation. | |
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18 | Brief Installation Instructions =========================================== |
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30d14d55 | 20 | To build Guile on unix, there are two basic steps: |
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22 | 1. Type "./configure", to configure the package for your system. |
23 | 2. Type "make", to build the package. | |
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25 | Generic instructions for configuring and compiling GNU distributions | |
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26 | are included below. (For instructions how to install SLIB, the scheme |
27 | procedure library, see below.) | |
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30 | Special Instructions For Some Systems ===================================== |
31 | ||
32 | We would like Guile to build on all systems using the simple | |
33 | instructions above, but it seems that a few systems still need special | |
34 | treatment. If you can send us fixes for these problems, we'd be | |
35 | grateful. | |
36 | ||
37 | SunOS 4.1: Guile's shared library support seems to be confused, but | |
38 | hey; shared libraries are confusing. You may need to configure | |
39 | Guile with a command like: | |
7e2c0c8d | 40 | ./configure --disable-shared |
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41 | For more information on `--disable-shared', see below, "Flags |
42 | Accepted by Configure". | |
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44 | HP/UX: GCC 2.7.2 (and maybe other versions) have trouble creating | |
45 | shared libraries if they depend on any non-shared libraries. GCC | |
46 | seems to have other problems as well. To work around this, we | |
47 | suggest you configure Guile to use the system's C compiler: | |
48 | CC=cc ./configure | |
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50 | NetBSD: Perry Metzger says, "Guile will build under NetBSD only using |
51 | gmake -- the native make will not work. (gmake is in our package | |
52 | system, so this will not be a problem when we packagize 1.3.)" | |
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55 | Flags Accepted by Configure =============================================== |
56 | ||
57 | If you run the configure script with no arguments, it should examine | |
58 | your system and set things up appropriately. However, there are a few | |
59 | switches specific to Guile you may find useful in some circumstances. | |
60 | ||
61 | --enable-maintainer-mode --- If you have automake, autoconf, and | |
62 | libtool installed on your system, this switch causes configure to | |
63 | generate Makefiles which know how to automatically regenerate | |
64 | configure scripts, makefiles, and headers, when they are out of date. | |
65 | The README file says which versions of those tools you will need. | |
66 | ||
67 | --with-threads --- Build a Guile executable and library that supports | |
68 | cooperative threading. If you use this switch, Guile will also build | |
69 | and install the QuickThreads non-preemptive threading library, | |
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70 | libqthreads, which you will need to link into your programs after |
71 | libguile. When you use `guile-config', you will pick up all | |
72 | neccessary linker flags automatically. | |
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74 | Cooperative threads are not yet thoroughly tested; once they are, they |
75 | will be enabled by default. The interaction with blocking I/O is | |
76 | pretty ad hoc at the moment. In our experience, bugs in the thread | |
77 | support do not affect you if you don't actually use threads. | |
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79 | --with-modules --- Guile can dynamically load `plugin modules' during |
80 | runtime, using facilities provided by libtool. Not all platforms | |
81 | support this, however. On these platforms, you can statically link | |
82 | the plugin modules into libguile when Guile itself is build. XXX - | |
83 | how does one specify the modules? | |
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84 | |
85 | --disable-shared --- Do not build shared libraries. Normally, Guile | |
86 | will build shared libraries if your system supports them. Guile | |
87 | always builds static libraries. | |
88 | ||
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89 | --enable-debug-freelist --- Enable freelist debugging. |
90 | ||
91 | This enables a debugging version of SCM_NEWCELL(), and also registers | |
92 | an extra primitive, the setter `gc-set-debug-check-freelist!'. | |
93 | ||
94 | Configure with the --enable-debug-freelist option to enable | |
95 | the gc-set-debug-check-freelist! primitive, and then use: | |
96 | ||
97 | (gc-set-debug-check-freelist! #t) # turn on checking of the freelist | |
98 | (gc-set-debug-check-freelist! #f) # turn off checking | |
99 | ||
100 | Checking of the freelist forces a traversal of the freelist and | |
101 | a garbage collection before each allocation of a cell. This can | |
102 | slow down the interpreter dramatically, so the setter should be used to | |
103 | turn on this extra processing only when necessary. | |
104 | ||
105 | --enable-debug-malloc --- Enable malloc debugging. | |
106 | ||
107 | Include code for debugging of calls to scm_must_malloc/realloc/free. | |
108 | ||
109 | Checks that | |
110 | ||
111 | 1. objects freed by scm_must_free has been mallocated by scm_must_malloc | |
112 | 2. objects reallocated by scm_must_realloc has been allocated by | |
113 | scm_must_malloc | |
114 | 3. reallocated objects are reallocated with the same what string | |
115 | ||
116 | But, most importantly, it records the number of allocated objects of | |
117 | each kind. This is useful when searching for memory leaks. | |
118 | ||
119 | A Guile compiled with this option provides the primitive | |
120 | `malloc-stats' which returns an alist with pairs of kind and the | |
121 | number of objects of that kind. | |
122 | ||
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124 | --disable-arrays --- omit array and uniform array support |
125 | --disable-posix --- omit posix interfaces | |
126 | --disable-networking --- omit networking interfaces | |
127 | --disable-regex --- omit regular expression interfaces | |
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130 | Using Guile Without Installing It ========================================= |
131 | ||
30d14d55 | 132 | If you want to run Guile without installing it, set the environment |
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134 | including the directory containing this INSTALL file. If you used a |
135 | separate build directory, you'll need to include the build directory | |
136 | in the path as well. | |
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139 | called `/home/jimb/guile-snap' (so the full name of this INSTALL file |
140 | would be `/home/jimb/guile-snap/INSTALL'). Then you might say, if | |
141 | you're using Bash or any other Bourne shell variant, | |
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cf591c72 | 143 | export GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/home/jimb/guile-snap |
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18f468f8 | 145 | or if you're using CSH or one of its variants: |
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150 | Installing SLIB =========================================================== |
151 | ||
152 | In order to use SLIB from Guile you basically only need to put the | |
153 | `slib' directory _in_ one of the directories on Guile's load path. | |
154 | ||
155 | The standard installation is: | |
156 | ||
157 | 1. Obtain slib from http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB.html | |
158 | ||
159 | 2. Put it in Guile's data directory, that is the directory printed when | |
160 | you type | |
161 | ||
162 | guile-config info pkgdatadir | |
163 | ||
164 | at the shell prompt. This is normally `/usr/local/share/guile', so the | |
165 | directory will normally have full path `/usr/local/share/guile/slib'. | |
166 | ||
167 | 3. Start guile as a user with write access to the data directory and type | |
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169 | (use-modules (ice-9 slib)) | |
170 | ||
171 | at the Guile prompt. This will generate the slibcat catalog next to | |
172 | the slib directory. | |
173 | ||
174 | SLIB's `require' is provided by the Guile module (ice-9 slib). | |
175 | ||
176 | Example: | |
177 | ||
178 | (use-modules (ice-9 slib)) | |
179 | (require 'primes) | |
180 | (prime? 7) | |
181 | ||
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6dad9cd3 | 183 | Generic Instructions for Building Auto-Configured Packages ================ |
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184 | |
185 | To compile this package: | |
186 | ||
187 | 1. Configure the package for your system. In the directory that this | |
188 | file is in, type `./configure'. If you're using `csh' on an old | |
189 | version of System V, you might need to type `sh configure' instead to | |
190 | prevent `csh' from trying to execute `configure' itself. | |
191 | ||
192 | The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for | |
193 | various system-dependent variables used during compilation, and | |
194 | creates the Makefile(s) (one in each subdirectory of the source | |
195 | directory). In some packages it creates a C header file containing | |
196 | system-dependent definitions. It also creates a file `config.status' | |
197 | that you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration. | |
198 | Running `configure' takes a minute or two. | |
199 | ||
200 | To compile the package in a different directory from the one | |
201 | containing the source code, you must use GNU make. `cd' to the | |
202 | directory where you want the object files and executables to go and | |
203 | run `configure' with the option `--srcdir=DIR', where DIR is the | |
204 | directory that contains the source code. Using this option is | |
205 | actually unnecessary if the source code is in the parent directory of | |
206 | the one in which you are compiling; `configure' automatically checks | |
207 | for the source code in `..' if it does not find it in the current | |
208 | directory. | |
209 | ||
210 | By default, `make install' will install the package's files in | |
211 | /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/man, etc. You can specify | |
212 | an installation prefix other than /usr/local by giving `configure' the | |
213 | option `--prefix=PATH'. Alternately, you can do so by changing the | |
214 | `prefix' variable in the Makefile that `configure' creates (the | |
215 | Makefile in the top-level directory, if the package contains | |
216 | subdirectories). | |
217 | ||
218 | You can specify separate installation prefixes for machine-specific | |
219 | files and machine-independent files. If you give `configure' the | |
220 | option `--exec_prefix=PATH', the package will use PATH as the prefix | |
221 | for installing programs and libraries. Normally, all files are | |
222 | installed using the same prefix. | |
223 | ||
224 | `configure' ignores any other arguments that you give it. | |
225 | ||
226 | If your system requires unusual options for compilation or linking | |
227 | that `configure' doesn't know about, you can give `configure' initial | |
228 | values for some variables by setting them in the environment. In | |
229 | Bourne-compatible shells, you can do that on the command line like | |
230 | this: | |
231 | CC='gcc -traditional' DEFS=-D_POSIX_SOURCE ./configure | |
232 | ||
233 | The `make' variables that you might want to override with environment | |
234 | variables when running `configure' are: | |
235 | ||
236 | (For these variables, any value given in the environment overrides the | |
237 | value that `configure' would choose:) | |
238 | CC C compiler program. | |
239 | Default is `cc', or `gcc' if `gcc' is in your PATH. | |
240 | INSTALL Program to use to install files. | |
241 | Default is `install' if you have it, `cp' otherwise. | |
242 | INCLUDEDIR Directory for `configure' to search for include files. | |
243 | Default is /usr/include. | |
244 | ||
245 | (For these variables, any value given in the environment is added to | |
246 | the value that `configure' chooses:) | |
247 | DEFS Configuration options, in the form '-Dfoo -Dbar ...' | |
248 | LIBS Libraries to link with, in the form '-lfoo -lbar ...' | |
249 | ||
250 | If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, we encourage | |
251 | you to teach `configure' how to do them and mail the diffs to the | |
252 | address given in the README so we can include them in the next | |
253 | release. | |
254 | ||
255 | 2. Type `make' to compile the package. | |
256 | ||
257 | 3. Type `make install' to install programs, data files, and | |
258 | documentation. | |
259 | ||
260 | 4. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the | |
261 | source directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the | |
262 | Makefile(s), the header file containing system-dependent definitions | |
263 | (if the package uses one), and `config.status' (all the files that | |
264 | `configure' created), type `make distclean'. | |
265 | ||
266 | The file `configure.in' is used as a template to create `configure' by | |
267 | a program called `autoconf'. You will only need it if you want to | |
268 | regenerate `configure' using a newer version of `autoconf'. | |
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