Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 7.4

Chapter 13. Programming

Guile-2.0.9

Introduction to Guile

The Guile package contains the Project GNU's extension language library. Guile also contains a stand alone Scheme interpreter.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.4 platform.

Package Information

Guile Dependencies

Required

GC-7.2d, libffi-3.0.13 and libunistring-0.9.3

Optional

Emacs-24.3

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/guile

Installation of Guile

Install Guile by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make      &&
make html &&

makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/r5rs/r5rs.txt doc/r5rs/r5rs.texi &&
makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/ref/guile.txt doc/ref/guile.texi

If you have texlive-20130530 installed and wish to build alternate formats (PDF and postscript) of the documentation, issue the following commands: 

for DIRNAME in r5rs ref
do make -k -C doc/${DIRNAME} pdf ps
done &&
unset DIRNAME

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install &&

find examples -name "Makefile*" -exec rm {} \; &&
install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/guile-2.0.9 &&
cp -vR examples   /usr/share/doc/guile-2.0.9 &&

for DIRNAME in r5rs ref
do
  install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/guile-2.0.9/${DIRNAME} &&
  install -v -m644  doc/${DIRNAME}/*.txt \
                    /usr/share/doc/guile-2.0.9/${DIRNAME} &&
  if [ -d           doc/${DIRNAME}/${DIRNAME}.html ]; then
    cp -Rv          doc/${DIRNAME}/${DIRNAME}.html \
                    /usr/share/doc/guile-2.0.9/${DIRNAME}
  fi
done

cp -vR doc/ref/guile.html /usr/share/doc/guile-2.0.9/ref

If you built the alternate formats of the documentation, install them using the following commands issued by the root user: 

for DIRNAME in r5rs ref
do
  install -v -m644 doc/${DIRNAME}/*.{pdf,ps,dvi} \
                   /usr/share/doc/guile-2.0.9/${DIRNAME}
done

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Contents

Installed Programs: guild, guile, guile-config, guile-snarf and guile-tools
Installed Libraries: libguile-2.0.so and libguilereadline-v-18.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/guile, /usr/lib/guile, /usr/share/doc/guile-2.0.9 and /usr/share/guile

Short Descriptions

guile

is a stand-alone Scheme interpreter for Guile.

guile-config

is a Guile script which provides the information necessary to link your programs against the Guile library, in much the same way PkgConfig does.

guile-snarf

is a script to parse declarations in your C code for Scheme visible C functions.

guild

is a wrapper program installed along with guile, which knows where a particular module is installed and calls it, passing its arguments to the program.

guile-tools

is a symlink to guild.

Last updated on 2013-08-23 03:32:24 -0700