glfs/general/prog/guile.xml
Randy McMurchy dcd55b3774 Updated to Guile-1.8.2, added a note to GnuCash that the instructions are now broken, commented out the entire GNOME-1.4 section
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
"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>