I recently had a struggle getting slib to work with the latest guile
release (1.8.6). I believe para. 6.1.1 of the guile reference manual
needs to be rewritten since the procedures don't seem to work as
advertised. Following is the wording I suggest based on my experience
with guile 1.8.6 and the latest slib release (3b1):
[Note that the link to the SLIB installation is broken.]
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6.1.1 SLIB installation
The following procedure works, e.g., with SLIB version 3b1 (see SLIB
installation):
1. Unpack SLIB and install it using make install from its directory. By
default, this will install SLIB in /usr/local/lib/slib/. Running make
installinfo installs its documentation, by default under
/usr/local/info/.
2. Create a symlink in the Guile directory to SLIB, e.g.:
mkdir -p /usr/local/share/guile/site
ln -s /usr/local/lib/slib /usr/local/share/guile/site/slib
3. Use Guile to create the catalog file, e.g.,:
# guile
guile> (use-modules (ice-9 slib))
guile> (require 'new-catalog)
guile> (quit)
The catalog data should now be in /usr/local/share/guile/site/slibcat.
If instead you get an error such as:
Unbound variable: scheme-implementation-type
then a solution is to get a newer version of Guile, or to modify
ice-9/slib.scm to use define-public for the offending variables.
4. Test the installation by executing the following at the command line:
guile -c "(use-modules (ice-9 slib)) (require 'printf)"
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Notice that the instructions for setting environment variables, for
some reason, did not work for me. I have seen several other threads
from other folks who have had the same experience, i.e., environment
variables not working.
Notice also that the directory /usr/local/share/guile/site was not
produced during the guile installation, and putting the slib directory
under /usr/local/share/guile/1.8 didn't work either.
I'll be happy to present this as a patch.
Regards,
-Tom
Tom Browder
Niceville, Florida
USA
