ANON-CVS

   1 Anonymous CVS access to Guile ========================================
   2
   3 We make the current Guile sources available via anonymous CVS.  Please
   4 keep in mind that these sources are strictly experimental; they will
   5 usually not be well-tested, and may not even compile on some systems.
   6 They may contain interfaces which will change.  They will usually not
   7 be of sufficient quality for use by people not comfortable hacking the
   8 innards of Guile.  Caveat!
   9
  10 However, we're providing them anyway for several reasons.  We'd like
  11 to encourage people to get involved in developing Guile.  People
  12 willing to use the bleeding edge of development can get earlier access
  13 to new, experimental features.  Patches submitted relative to recent
  14 sources will be easier for us to evaluate and install, since the
  15 patch's original sources will be closer to what we're working with.
  16 And it allows us to start testing features earlier.
  17
  18 Nightly FTP snapshots are no longer available.  It is more difficult
  19 than you might think to make them reliably.
  20
  21 To check out a CVS working directory:
  22
  23 1) Install CVS version 1.9 or later on your system.
  24 2) Log into the CVS server:
  25      $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@egcs.cygnus.com:/egcs/carton/cvsfiles login
  26    Use the password `anoncvs'.
  27 3) Check out a module:
  28      $ cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@egcs.cygnus.com:/egcs/carton/cvsfiles checkout guile-core
  29    This should create a new directory `guile-core' in your current
  30    directory, and populate it with the current Guile sources.
  31
  32 The modules available for checkout are:
  33   guile-core --- The scheme interpreter itself.
  34   guile-doc --- Guile documentation-in-progress.
  35   guile-tcltk --- An interface between Guile and Tcl/Tk.
  36   guile-scsh --- An incomplete port of SCSH 0.4.4 to Guile.
  37   guile-rgx-ctax --- This has been discontinued; use Andrew Archibald's
  38           distribution instead:
  39     ftp://ftp.red-bean.com/pub/guile/contrib/misc/guile-lang-allover-0.1.tar.gz
  40
  41 Once you have a working directory, you can bring it up to date easily
  42 and efficiently:
  43
  44 1) Go to the top directory of the source tree.  That is, your current
  45    directory should be the one containing `configure.in', `README',
  46    and so on.
  47 2) Do the update:
  48      $ cvs update
  49
  50 This will incorporate any changes the developers have made to Guile
  51 since your last update into your source tree.
  52
  53 The EGCS Project is kindly lending us space, time, and bandwidth on
  54 their CVS server.  Thanks, folks!
  55
  56
  57 Questions ============================================================
  58
  59 (I don't know if they'll be "frequently asked" or not yet!)
  60
  61 - It takes forever to do an update; what can I do to speed it up?
  62
  63   CVS tries to be smart about what it sends; it will transmit and
  64   install only those files that have changed, and will sometimes
  65   transmit and apply patches instead, to save transmission time.
  66
  67   It is also possible to have CVS compress transmitted data, using zlib.
  68   Put the following line in your ~/.cvsrc file:
  69
  70   cvs -z 9
  71
  72   See the CVS documentation for more details.
  73
  74
  75 - What happens if I've changed files in my working directory, and then
  76   I do an update?
  77
  78   If you have made local changes to your sources, the `cvs update'
  79   command will not overwrite them; instead, CVS will try to merge its
  80   changes with your changes, as if you had applied a patch.  Rejects are
  81   marked in the sources.
  82
  83 - Why does the build process try to run autoconf, aclocal, or automake?
  84
  85   It shouldn't; if it does, that's a bug, I think.  Those are the
  86   tools we use to generate `configure', `aclocal.m4', and the
  87   `Makefile.in' files from their respective sources.  Ideally, you
  88   shouldn't need to have them installed, if you don't want to change
  89   those sources.  If you do, see the section in `README' called
  90   `Hacking It Yourself'.