-Guile Installation Guide
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-
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-
-
-Brief Installation Instructions ===========================================
-
-To build Guile on unix, there are two basic steps:
-
- 1. Type "./configure", to configure the package for your system.
- 2. Type "make", to build the package.
-
-Generic instructions for configuring and compiling GNU distributions
-are included below. (For instructions how to install SLIB, the scheme
-procedure library, see below.)
-
-
-Special Instructions For Some Systems =====================================
-
-We would like Guile to build on all systems using the simple
-instructions above, but it seems that a few systems still need special
-treatment. If you can send us fixes for these problems, we'd be
-grateful.
-
-SunOS 4.1: Guile's shared library support seems to be confused, but
- hey; shared libraries are confusing. You may need to configure
- Guile with a command like:
- ./configure --disable-shared
- For more information on `--disable-shared', see below, "Flags
- Accepted by Configure".
-
-HP/UX: GCC 2.7.2 (and maybe other versions) have trouble creating
- shared libraries if they depend on any non-shared libraries. GCC
- seems to have other problems as well. To work around this, we
- suggest you configure Guile to use the system's C compiler:
- CC=cc ./configure
-
-NetBSD: Perry Metzger says, "Guile will build under NetBSD only using
- gmake -- the native make will not work. (gmake is in our package
- system, so this will not be a problem when we packagize 1.3.)"
-
-
-Flags Accepted by Configure ===============================================
-
-If you run the configure script with no arguments, it should examine
-your system and set things up appropriately. However, there are a few
-switches specific to Guile you may find useful in some circumstances.
-
-
---enable-maintainer-mode
-
- If you have automake, autoconf, and libtool installed on your
- system, this switch causes configure to generate Makefiles which
- know how to automatically regenerate configure scripts, makefiles,
- and headers, when they are out of date. The README file says which
- versions of those tools you will need.
-
-
---with-threads --- Build with thread support
-
- Build a Guile executable and library that supports cooperative
- threading. If you use this switch, Guile will also build and
- install the QuickThreads non-preemptive threading library,
- libqthreads, which you will need to link into your programs after
- libguile. When you use `guile-config', you will pick up all
- neccessary linker flags automatically.
-
- Cooperative threads are not yet thoroughly tested; once they are,
- they will be enabled by default. The interaction with blocking I/O
- is pretty ad hoc at the moment. In our experience, bugs in the
- thread support do not affect you if you don't actually use threads.
-
-
---with-modules --- Specify statically linked `modules'
-
- Guile can dynamically load `plugin modules' during runtime, using
- facilities provided by libtool. Not all platforms support this,
- however. On these platforms, you can statically link the plugin
- modules into libguile when Guile itself is build. XXX - how does
- one specify the modules?
-
-
---enable-deprecated=LEVEL --- Control the inclusion of deprecated features.
-
- You can select between different behaviours via the LEVEL argument:
- a value of "no" will omit all deprecated features and you will get
- "undefined reference", "variable unbound" or similar errors when you
- try to use them. All other values will include all deprecated
- features. The LEVEL argument is used as the default value for the
- environment variable GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED. See the README for
- documentation about this.
-
-
---disable-shared --- Do not build shared libraries.
---disable-static --- Do not build static libraries.
-
- Normally, both static and shared libraries will be built if your
- system supports them.
-
-
---enable-debug-freelist --- Enable freelist debugging.
-
- This enables a debugging version of SCM_NEWCELL(), and also
- registers an extra primitive, the setter
- `gc-set-debug-check-freelist!'.
-
- Configure with the --enable-debug-freelist option to enable the
- gc-set-debug-check-freelist! primitive, and then use:
-
- (gc-set-debug-check-freelist! #t) # turn on checking of the freelist
- (gc-set-debug-check-freelist! #f) # turn off checking
-
- Checking of the freelist forces a traversal of the freelist and a
- garbage collection before each allocation of a cell. This can slow
- down the interpreter dramatically, so the setter should be used to
- turn on this extra processing only when necessary.
-
-
---enable-debug-malloc --- Enable malloc debugging.
-
- Include code for debugging of calls to scm_must_malloc/realloc/free.
-
- Checks that
-
- 1. objects freed by scm_must_free has been mallocated by scm_must_malloc
- 2. objects reallocated by scm_must_realloc has been allocated by
- scm_must_malloc
- 3. reallocated objects are reallocated with the same what string
-
- But, most importantly, it records the number of allocated objects of
- each kind. This is useful when searching for memory leaks.
-
- A Guile compiled with this option provides the primitive
- `malloc-stats' which returns an alist with pairs of kind and the
- number of objects of that kind.
-
-
---enable-guile-debug --- Include internal debugging functions
---disable-arrays --- omit array and uniform array support
---disable-posix --- omit posix interfaces
---disable-networking --- omit networking interfaces
---disable-regex --- omit regular expression interfaces
-
-
-Using Guile Without Installing It =========================================
-
-If you want to run Guile without installing it, set the environment
-variable `GUILE_LOAD_PATH' to a colon-separated list of directories,
-including the directory containing this INSTALL file. If you used a
-separate build directory, you'll need to include the build directory
-in the path as well.
-
-For example, suppose the Guile distribution unpacked into a directory
-called `/home/jimb/guile-snap' (so the full name of this INSTALL file
-would be `/home/jimb/guile-snap/INSTALL'). Then you might say, if
-you're using Bash or any other Bourne shell variant,
-
- export GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/home/jimb/guile-snap
-
-or if you're using CSH or one of its variants:
-
- setenv GUILE_LOAD_PATH /home/jimb/guile-snap
-
-
-Installing SLIB ===========================================================
-
-In order to use SLIB from Guile you basically only need to put the
-`slib' directory _in_ one of the directories on Guile's load path.
-
-The standard installation is:
-
- 1. Obtain slib from http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB.html
-
- 2. Put it in Guile's data directory, that is the directory printed when
- you type
-
- guile-config info pkgdatadir
-
- at the shell prompt. This is normally `/usr/local/share/guile', so the
- directory will normally have full path `/usr/local/share/guile/slib'.
-
- 3. Start guile as a user with write access to the data directory and type
-
- (use-modules (ice-9 slib))
-
- at the Guile prompt. This will generate the slibcat catalog next to
- the slib directory.
-
-SLIB's `require' is provided by the Guile module (ice-9 slib).
-
-Example:
-
- (use-modules (ice-9 slib))
- (require 'primes)
- (prime? 7)
-
-
-Generic Instructions for Building Auto-Configured Packages ================
-
-To compile this package:
-
-1. Configure the package for your system. In the directory that this
-file is in, type `./configure'. If you're using `csh' on an old
-version of System V, you might need to type `sh configure' instead to
-prevent `csh' from trying to execute `configure' itself.
-
-The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
-various system-dependent variables used during compilation, and
-creates the Makefile(s) (one in each subdirectory of the source
-directory). In some packages it creates a C header file containing
-system-dependent definitions. It also creates a file `config.status'
-that you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration.
-Running `configure' takes a minute or two.
-
-To compile the package in a different directory from the one
-containing the source code, you must use GNU make. `cd' to the
-directory where you want the object files and executables to go and
-run `configure' with the option `--srcdir=DIR', where DIR is the
-directory that contains the source code. Using this option is
-actually unnecessary if the source code is in the parent directory of
-the one in which you are compiling; `configure' automatically checks
-for the source code in `..' if it does not find it in the current
-directory.
-
-By default, `make install' will install the package's files in
-/usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/man, etc. You can specify
-an installation prefix other than /usr/local by giving `configure' the
-option `--prefix=PATH'. Alternately, you can do so by changing the
-`prefix' variable in the Makefile that `configure' creates (the
-Makefile in the top-level directory, if the package contains
-subdirectories).
-
-You can specify separate installation prefixes for machine-specific
-files and machine-independent files. If you give `configure' the
-option `--exec_prefix=PATH', the package will use PATH as the prefix
-for installing programs and libraries. Normally, all files are
-installed using the same prefix.
-
-`configure' ignores any other arguments that you give it.
-
-If your system requires unusual options for compilation or linking
-that `configure' doesn't know about, you can give `configure' initial
-values for some variables by setting them in the environment. In
-Bourne-compatible shells, you can do that on the command line like
-this:
- CC='gcc -traditional' DEFS=-D_POSIX_SOURCE ./configure
-
-The `make' variables that you might want to override with environment
-variables when running `configure' are:
-
-(For these variables, any value given in the environment overrides the
-value that `configure' would choose:)
-CC C compiler program.
- Default is `cc', or `gcc' if `gcc' is in your PATH.
-INSTALL Program to use to install files.
- Default is `install' if you have it, `cp' otherwise.
-INCLUDEDIR Directory for `configure' to search for include files.
- Default is /usr/include.
-
-(For these variables, any value given in the environment is added to
-the value that `configure' chooses:)
-DEFS Configuration options, in the form '-Dfoo -Dbar ...'
-LIBS Libraries to link with, in the form '-lfoo -lbar ...'
-
-If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, we encourage
-you to teach `configure' how to do them and mail the diffs to the
-address given in the README so we can include them in the next
-release.
-
-2. Type `make' to compile the package.
-
-3. Type `make install' to install programs, data files, and
-documentation.
-
-4. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
-source directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the
-Makefile(s), the header file containing system-dependent definitions
-(if the package uses one), and `config.status' (all the files that
-`configure' created), type `make distclean'.
-
-The file `configure.in' is used as a template to create `configure' by
-a program called `autoconf'. You will only need it if you want to
-regenerate `configure' using a newer version of `autoconf'.
-
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