-Anonymous CVS access to Guile ========================================
-
-We make the current Guile sources available via anonymous CVS. Please
-keep in mind that these sources are strictly experimental; they will
-usually not be well-tested, and may not even compile on some systems.
-They may contain interfaces which will change. They will usually not
-be of sufficient quality for use by people not comfortable hacking the
-innards of Guile. Caveat!
-
-However, we're providing them anyway for several reasons. We'd like
-to encourage people to get involved in developing Guile. People
-willing to use the bleeding edge of development can get earlier access
-to new, experimental features. Patches submitted relative to recent
-sources will be easier for us to evaluate and install, since the
-patch's original sources will be closer to what we're working with.
-And it allows us to start testing features earlier.
-
-Since the CVS tree is arranged for the convenience of the developers,
-it requires GCC and GNU Make, which together support automatic
-dependency management. You will also need to install autoconf,
-automake, and libtool; the recommended versions are listed in README.
-
-To check out a CVS working directory:
-
-1) Install CVS version 1.9 or later on your system.
-2) Log into the CVS server:
- $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.cygnus.com:/cvs/guile login
- At the prompt for `CVS password:', type `anoncvs'.
- Once you have logged in, your password is saved in ~/.cvspass, and you
- will not need to enter it again.
-3) Check out a module:
- $ cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.cygnus.com:/cvs/guile checkout guile-core
- This should create a new directory `guile-core' in your current
- directory, and populate it with the current Guile sources.
-4) In the top directory of the source tree, run the command `./autogen.sh'.
- This builds the configure script, Makefile.in, and other derived files
- used by the build system.
-
-The modules available for checkout are:
- guile-core --- The scheme interpreter itself.
- guile-doc --- Guile documentation-in-progress.
- guile-oops --- GOOPS Guile Object Oriented Programming System.
- guile-tcltk --- An interface between Guile and Tcl/Tk.
- guile-scsh --- An incomplete port of SCSH 0.4.4 to Guile.
- guile-rgx-ctax --- This has been discontinued; use Andrew Archibald's
- distribution instead:
- ftp://ftp.red-bean.com/pub/guile/contrib/misc/guile-lang-allover-0.1.tar.gz
-
-Once you have a working directory, you can bring it up to date easily
-and efficiently:
-
-1) Go to the top directory of the source tree. That is, your current
- directory should be the one containing `configure.in', `README',
- and so on.
-2) Do the update:
- $ cvs update
-
-This will incorporate any changes the developers have made to Guile
-since your last update into your source tree.
-
-The EGCS Project is kindly lending us space, time, and bandwidth on
-their CVS server. Thanks, folks!
-
-
-Change Notification ==================================================
-
-If you would like to receive mail when people commit changes to the
-Guile CVS repository, you can subscribe to guile-cvs@egcs.cygnus.com
-by sending a message to guile-cvs-subscribe@egcs.cygnus.com. Even
-better, you can get daily digests of these commit messages by sending
-a message to guile-cvs-digest-subscribe@egcs.cygnus.com.
-
-If you want to subscribe an e-mail address other than the one that
-appears in your From: header, say foo@bar.com, send a mail note to
-guile-cvs-subscribe-foo=bar.com@egcs.cygnus.com.
-
-
-Questions ============================================================
-
-(I don't know if they'll be "frequently asked" or not yet!)
-
-- It takes forever to do an update; what can I do to speed it up?
-
- CVS tries to be smart about what it sends; it will transmit and
- install only those files that have changed, and will sometimes
- transmit and apply patches instead, to save transmission time.
-
- It is also possible to have CVS compress transmitted data, using zlib.
- Put the following line in your ~/.cvsrc file:
-
- cvs -z 9
-
- See the CVS documentation for more details.
-
-
-- What happens if I've changed files in my working directory, and then
- I do an update?
-
- If you have made local changes to your sources, the `cvs update'
- command will not overwrite them; instead, CVS will try to merge its
- changes with your changes, as if you had applied a patch. Rejects are
- marked in the sources.
-
-- Why does the build process try to run autoconf, aclocal, or automake?
-
- It shouldn't; if it does, that's a bug, I think. Those are the
- tools we use to generate `configure', `aclocal.m4', and the
- `Makefile.in' files from their respective sources. Ideally, you
- shouldn't need to have them installed, if you don't want to change
- those sources. If you do, see the section in `README' called
- `Hacking It Yourself'.
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