source: general/prog/clisp.xml@ a1f2d184

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   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY clisp-download-http "http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/clisp/latest/clisp-&clisp-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY clisp-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/clisp/latest/clisp-&clisp-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY clisp-md5sum        "1962b99d5e530390ec3829236d168649">
  <!ENTITY clisp-size          "7.8 MB">
  <!ENTITY clisp-buildsize     "163 MB">
  <!ENTITY clisp-time          "0.9 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="clisp" xreflabel="Clisp-&clisp-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="clisp.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Clisp-&clisp-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="clisp">
    <primary sortas="a-Clisp">Clisp</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Clisp</title>

    <para>
      <application>GNU Clisp</application> is a Common Lisp implementation
      which includes an interpreter, compiler, debugger, and many extensions.
    </para>

    &lfs75_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&clisp-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&clisp-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &clisp-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &clisp-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &clisp-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &clisp-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="libsigsegv"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/libffcall/">libffcall</ulink>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
      User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/clisp"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Clisp</title>

    <note>
      <para>
        This package does not support parallel build.
      </para>
    </note>

    <para>
      Install <application>Clisp</application> by running the following commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
cd build &amp;&amp;
./configure --srcdir=../                       \
            --prefix=/usr                      \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/clisp-&clisp-version; \
            --with-libsigsegv-prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
ulimit -s 16384 &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      For reasons which are not understood, the testsuite for this package
      fails.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 doc/clisp.man /usr/share/man/man3/clisp_malloc.3 &amp;&amp;
ln -sfv clisp_malloc.3 /usr/share/man/man3/clisp.3 </userinput></screen>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <command>uimit -s 16384</command>: this increases the maximum stack
      size, as recommended by the <command>configure</command>.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          clisp, clisp-link
        </seg>
        <seg>
          various static libraries in
          <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/clisp-$clisp-version;/base/</filename>
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/lib/clisp-&clisp-version;
          /usr/share/doc/clisp-&clisp-version;
          /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp;
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="clisp-prog">
        <term><command>clisp</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is an ANSI Common Lisp compiler, interpreter, and debugger</para>
          <indexterm zone="clisp clisp-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-clisp">clisp</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="clisp-link">
        <term><command>clisp-link</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is used to link an external module to clisp</para>
          <indexterm zone="clisp clisp-link">
            <primary sortas="b-clisp-link">clisp-link</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>