source: general/prog/guile.xml@ d0a1a90

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<sect1 id="guile" xreflabel="Guile-&guile-version;">
<sect1info>
<othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
<date>$Date$</date>
</sect1info>
<?dbhtml filename="guile.html"?>
<title>Guile-&guile-version;</title>
<indexterm zone="guile">
<primary sortas="a-Guile">Guile</primary></indexterm>

<sect2>
<title>Introduction to <application>Guile</application></title>

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

<sect3><title>Package information</title>
<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>
</sect3>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation of <application>Guile</application></title>

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

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

<para>Now, as the root user:</para>

<screen><userinput role='root'><command>make install</command></userinput></screen>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<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"?>

<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>

</sect1>