Re: About slib

[Mario Filipe <mjnf neptuno sc uevora pt>]

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

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        Mario Filipe
        mjnf@uevora.pt
        http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf