source: general/prog/guile.xml@ dcd55b37

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

  <!ENTITY guile-download-http "http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/guile/guile-&guile-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY guile-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/guile/guile-&guile-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY guile-md5sum        "a4b64a992deae0532f8015bcc6c40784">
  <!ENTITY guile-size          "3.7 MB">
  <!ENTITY guile-buildsize     "49 MB (additional 40 MB to install all the docs)">
  <!ENTITY guile-time          "1.2 SBU (includes building all documentation)">
]>

<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>

    <!-- <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Required patch: <ulink
        url="&patch-root;/guile-&guile-version;-gcc4-1.patch"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Required patch: <ulink
        url="&patch-root;/guile-&guile-version;-slib-1.patch"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist> -->

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Guile Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required"><xref linkend="gmp"/></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="required"><xref linkend="emacs"/></para>

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

  </sect2>

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

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

<screen><userinput>sed -i -e '20,$ d' \
       -e 's|slib)|&amp;)\n(load-from-path "slib/guile.init")|' \
    ice-9/slib.scm

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

    <para>If you have <xref linkend="tetex"/> installed and wish to
    build alternate formats of the documentation, issue the following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>for DIRNAME in goops r5rs ref tutorial
do
  make -k -C doc/$DIRNAME pdf ps html
done &amp;&amp;

makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/goops/goops.txt doc/goops/goops.texi &amp;&amp;
makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/r5rs/r5rs.txt doc/r5rs/r5rs.texi &amp;&amp;
makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/ref/guile.txt doc/ref/guile.texi &amp;&amp;
makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/tutorial/guile-tut.txt \
    doc/tutorial/guile-tut.texi &amp;&amp;

unset DIRNAME</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 &amp;&amp;

find examples -name "Makefile*" -exec rm {} \; &amp;&amp;
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/guile-&guile-version; &amp;&amp;
cp -v -R examples   /usr/share/doc/guile-&guile-version;</userinput></screen>

    <para>If you built the alternate formats of the documentation, install them
    using the following commands issued by the
    <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>for DIRNAME in goops r5rs ref tutorial
do
  install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/guile-&guile-version;/$DIRNAME/html
  install -v -m644 doc/$DIRNAME/*.{pdf,ps,dvi,txt} \
      /usr/share/doc/guile-&guile-version;/$DIRNAME
  if [ -d doc/$DIRNAME/$DIRNAME.html ]; then
    install -v -m644 doc/$DIRNAME/$DIRNAME.html/* \
        /usr/share/doc/guile-&guile-version;/$DIRNAME/html
  fi
done &amp;&amp;

install -v -m644 doc/goops/hierarchy.{eps,png} \
    /usr/share/doc/guile-&guile-version;/goops &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 doc/ref/guile.html/* \
    /usr/share/doc/guile-&guile-version;/ref/html &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 doc/tutorial/guile-tut.html/* \
    /usr/share/doc/guile-&guile-version;/tutorial/html</userinput></screen>
  </sect2>

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

    <para><command>sed -i -e '20,$ d' -e '...' ice-9/slib.scm</command>:
    This command is used to modify the <application>Guile</application>
    <application>SLIB</application> initialization script. There are
    incompatibilities with newer versions of <application>SLIB</application>
    and this command modifes the script to use the installed
    <application>SLIB</application> script.</para>

  </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}, libguile-srfi-srfi-*.{so,a} and
        /libguilereadline-v-17.{so,a}</seg>
        <seg>/usr/include/guile, /usr/include/libguile,
        /usr/share/doc/guile-&guile-version; 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>

</sect1>