Re: How to install slib? (was Re: Help with a basic install)

[Mark Galassi <rosalia cygnus com>]

If you look at the Guile docs, currently not shipped with Guile but
available as a separate module, you will find the following node, and
that node is also pointed to by the slib node:

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File: guile-ref.info,  Node: Packages not shipped with Guile,  Prev: The Basic Guile Package,  Up: Obtaining and Installing Guile

Packages not shipped with Guile
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   We ship the Guile tutorial and reference manual with the Guile
distribution [FIXME: this is not currently true (Sat Sep 20 14:13:33 MDT
1997), but will be soon.]  Since the Scheme standard (R4RS) is a stable
document, we ship that too.

   Here are references (usually World Wide Web URLs) to some other
freely redistributable documents and packages which you might find
useful if you are using Guile.

*SCSH*
     the Scheme Shell.  Gary Houston has ported SCSH to Guile.  The
     relevant chapter (*note The Scheme shell (scsh)::.) has references
     to the SCSH web page with all its documentation.

*SLIB*
     a portable Scheme library maintained by Aubrey Jaffer.  SLIB can be
     obtained by ftp from `ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/jacal/'.

     The SLIB package should be unpacked somewhere in Guile's load
     path.  It will typically be unpacked in
     `/usr/local/share/guile/site', so that it will be
     `/usr/local/share/guile/site/slib'.

     Guile might have been installed with a different prefix, in which
     case the load path can be checked from inside the interpreter with:

          guile> %load-path
          ("/usr/local/share/guile/site" "/usr/local/share/guile/1.3a" "/usr/local/share/guile" ".")

     The relevant chapter (*note SLIB::.) has details on how to use
     SLIB with Guile.

*JACAL*
     a symbolic math package by Aubrey Jaffer.  The latest version of
     Jacal can be obtained from `ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/jacal/',
     and should be unpacked in `/usr/local/share/guile/site/slib' so
     that it will be in `/usr/local/share/guile/site/slib/jacal'.

     The relevant section (*note JACAL::.) has details on how to use
     Jacal.