source: general/prog/guile.xml@ 40d6bab

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  <!ENTITY guile-md5sum "c2ff2a2231f0cbb2e838dd8701a587c5">
  <!ENTITY guile-size "3.0 MB">
  <!ENTITY guile-buildsize "37.4 MB">
  <!ENTITY guile-time "0.86 SBU">
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<sect1 id="guile" xreflabel="Guile-&guile-version;">
<?dbhtml filename="guile.html"?>

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

  <title>Guile-&guile-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="guile">
    <primary sortas="a-Guile">Guile</primary>
  </indexterm>

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

    <para>The <application>Guile</application> package contains the Project
    GNU's extension language library. <application>Guile</application> also contains
    a stand alone <application>Scheme</application> interpreter.</para>

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

  </sect2>

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

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

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.</para>

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

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

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

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

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>guile, guile-config, guile-snarf, and guile-tools</seg>
        <seg>libguile.[so,a], libguilereadline-v-12.[so,a], libguile-ltdl.[so,a],
        libguile-srfi-srfi-13-14-v-1.[so,a], libguile-srfi-srfi-4-v-1.[so,a], and
        optionally, libqthreads.[so,a]</seg>
        <seg>/usr/include/guile, /usr/include/guile-readline, /usr/include/libguile,
        and /usr/share/guile</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="guile-prog">
        <term><command>guile</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a stand-alone Scheme interpreter for
          <application>Guile</application>.</para>
          <indexterm zone="guile guile-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-guile">guile</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="guile-config">
        <term><command>guile-config</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a <application>Guile</application> script which provides
          the information necessary to link your programs against the
          <application>Guile</application> library, in much the same way
          <xref linkend="pkgconfig"></xref> does.</para>
          <indexterm zone="guile guile-config">
            <primary sortas="b-guile-config">guile-config</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="guile-snarf">
        <term><command>guile-snarf</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a script to parse declarations in your
          <application>C</application> code for <application>Scheme</application>
          visible <application>C</application> functions, i
          <application>Scheme</application> objects to be used by
          <application>C</application> code, etc.</para>
          <indexterm zone="guile guile-snarf">
            <primary sortas="b-guile-snarf">guile-snarf</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="guile-tools">
        <term><command>guile-tools</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a wrapper program installed along with
          <command>guile</command> which knows where a particular
          module is installed and calls it passing its args to a program.</para>
          <indexterm zone="guile guile-tools">
            <primary sortas="b-guile-tools">guile-tools</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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