Re: About slib
- From: Mario Filipe <mjnf neptuno sc uevora pt>
- To: gnome nuclecu unam mx
- Subject: Re: About slib
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 21:39:51 -0000 (WET)
On 26-Jan-98 Vollmer Marius wrote:
> Mario Filipe <mjnf@neptuno.sc.uevora.pt> writes:
>
>> I've been trying to compile gnome but i can't because apparently slib
>> isn't
>> very well installed so I'll ask for your help.
>
> To install SLIB for Guile, you only need to unpack it in the right
> place. You have to make sure that SLIB's toplevel directory ("slib")
> is in the load-path of Guile.
>
> You can find your load-path with this command
>
> % guile -c "(display %load-path) (newline)"
>
> (or by just typing `%load-path' without the quotes to a Guile prompt).
>
> Unpack the slib tarball into one of the displayed directories. For
> example, "<prefix>/share/guile" should be fine. That's all there is
> to do.
>
> Now, you might have a problem with recent SLIBs. Version 2c0 (I
> think) has some problems with guile-1.2. You might need a recent
> guile snapshot for it. If this is not an option for you, I can send
> you a working slib.scm file that you need to install in
> "<prefix>/share/guile/<version>/ice-9".
>
> Now, I think gnome only uses SLIB for regenerating the guile-gtk stub
> code and then only for the definition of `format'. I think I
> distribute my own mini-format with guile-gtk which should remove
> gnomes dependence on SLIB. mini-format is also faster than regular
> format.
>
>> When reading slib's README it says that it has configuration for several
>> Scheme implementation. Wich one is the right one for guile (i'm willing to
>> bet on scm). Then it talks about an initialization file. Where is this
>> file
>> for guile ?
>
> You don't need to worry about this. Guile comes with its own SLIB
> configuration code that you load with the `ice-9 slib' module. This
> is also the source for the version problem. The initialization code
> is not synched up with SLIB.
Thanks! You've been helpfull. I'll have a llok into this tommorrow morning
---
Mario Filipe
mjnf@uevora.pt
http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf
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