Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 7.5

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-7.5 platform.

Package Information

Guile Dependencies

Required

GC-7.4.0, 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 \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/guile-2.0.9 &&
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

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install      &&
make install-html &&

mv /usr/share/doc/guile-2.0.9/{guile.html,ref} &&
mv /usr/share/doc/guile-2.0.9/r5rs{.html,}     &&

find examples -name "Makefile*" -delete &&
cp -vR examples   /usr/share/doc/guile-2.0.9   &&

for DIRNAME in r5rs ref; do
  install -v -m644  doc/${DIRNAME}/*.txt \
                    /usr/share/doc/guile-2.0.9/${DIRNAME}
done &&
unset DIRNAME

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 2014-02-25 13:04:58 -0800