From 4dda42f303cbaf7f4afee55aed12bcd0e5480d2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marius Vollmer Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 21:31:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated GNu ftp server name. Use "-lguile" instead of "libguile.a". Some small fixes/improvements. --- doc/ref/intro.texi | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/ref/intro.texi b/doc/ref/intro.texi index af1b48d0e..583017a9b 100644 --- a/doc/ref/intro.texi +++ b/doc/ref/intro.texi @@ -868,29 +868,34 @@ packages and documentation you might need or find interesting. @section The Basic Guile Package Guile can be obtained from the main GNU archive site -@url{ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu} or any of its mirrors. The file +@url{ftp://ftp.gnu.org} or any of its mirrors. The file will be named guile-version.tar.gz. The current version is @value{VERSION}, so the file you should grab is: -@url{ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/guile-@value{VERSION}.tar.gz} +@url{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/guile-@value{VERSION}.tar.gz} To unbundle Guile use the instruction + @example zcat guile-@value{VERSION}.tar.gz | tar xvf - @end example + which will create a directory called @file{guile-@value{VERSION}} with all the sources. You can look at the file @file{INSTALL} for detailed instructions on how to build and install Guile, but you should be able to just do + @example cd guile-@value{VERSION} ./configure +make make install @end example This will install the Guile executable @file{guile}, the Guile library -@file{libguile.a} and various associated header files and support -libraries. It will also install the Guile tutorial and reference manual. +@file{-lguile} and various associated header files and support +libraries. It will also install the Guile tutorial and reference +manual. @c [[include instructions for getting R5RS]]