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| author | Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> | 2017-04-19 16:15:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> | 2017-04-19 16:19:05 +0200 |
| commit | 18cac76be8f4dabdd290518fd551a71652efe500 (patch) | |
| tree | ba7b8eac0f8778039cdd455a29919b5c5f143e00 /README | |
| parent | 0aa02819793426130f45ae0793476b1e28ab5a8d (diff) | |
| download | guile-18cac76be8f4dabdd290518fd551a71652efe500.tar.gz | |
Add --with-bdw-gc and update README
* README: Update to 2.2. Add instructions for FreeBSD based on notes
from Matt Wette.
* configure.ac: Add --with-bdw-gc argument.
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 21 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -This is version 2.0 of Guile, Project GNU's extension language library. +This is version 2.2 of Guile, Project GNU's extension language library. Guile is an implementation of the Scheme programming language, packaged as a library that can be linked into applications to give them their own extension language. Guile supports other languages as well, giving @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Guile requires the following external packages: `utf*->string' procedures. It is available from http://www.gnu.org/software/libunistring/ . - - libgc, at least version 7.0 + - libgc, at least version 7.2 libgc (aka. the Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector) is the conservative garbage collector used by Guile. It is available @@ -124,7 +124,20 @@ instructions above, but it seems that a few systems still need special treatment. If you can send us fixes for these problems, we'd be grateful. - <none yet listed> +FreeBSD 11.0: + For a build supporting threads, please `pkg install' the following + - pkgconf : provides pkg-config + - gmake : /usr/bin/make does not work + - boehm-gc-threaded : needed for threaded support + + Configure as: + + ./configure --with-bdw-gc=bdw-gc-threaded + + Alternately if you want a Guile without threads, then install boehm-gc + and configure as: + + ./configure --without-threads Guile specific flags Accepted by Configure ================================= @@ -244,7 +257,7 @@ switches specific to Guile you may find useful in some circumstances. Cross building Guile ===================================================== -As of Guile 2.0.x, the build process produces a library, libguile-2.0, +As of Guile 2.2.x, the build process produces a library, libguile-2.2, along with Guile "object files" containing bytecode to be interpreted by Guile's virtual machine. The bytecode format depends on the endianness and word size of the host CPU. |