Guile-2.2.4

#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2019-02-27

### Chapter 13. Programming

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# Guile-2.2.4

## Introduction to Guile

The Guile package contains the GNU Project's extension language library. Guile also contains a stand alone Scheme interpreter.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-8.4 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-2.2.4.tar.xz

- Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-2.2.4.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: d2ee223fdb7570b68469e339a7074d1d

- Download size: 10.3 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 247 MB (with tests)

- Estimated build time: 5.3 SBU (with tests)

### Guile Dependencies

#### Required

GC-8.0.2 and libunistring-0.9.10

#### Optional

Emacs-26.1 and GDB-8.2.1 (run-time only dependencies).

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/guile

## Installation of Guile

Install Guile by running the following commands:

    ./configure --prefix=/usr    \
                --disable-static \
                --docdir=/usr/share/doc/guile-2.2.4 &&
    make      &&
    make html &&

    makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/r5rs/r5rs.txt doc/r5rs/r5rs.texi &&
    makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/ref/guile.txt doc/ref/guile.texi

To test the results, issue: ./check-guile.

Now, as the `root` user:

    make install      &&
    make install-html &&

    mv /usr/lib/libguile-*-gdb.scm /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/lib &&
    mv /usr/share/doc/guile-2.2.4/{guile.html,ref} &&
    mv /usr/share/doc/guile-2.2.4/r5rs{.html,}     &&

    find examples -name "Makefile*" -delete         &&
    cp -vR examples   /usr/share/doc/guile-2.2.4   &&

    for DIRNAME in r5rs ref; do
      install -v -m644  doc/${DIRNAME}/*.txt \
                        /usr/share/doc/guile-2.2.4/${DIRNAME}
    done &&
    unset DIRNAME

## Command Explanations

`--disable-static`: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

## Contents

Installed Programs: guild, guile, guile-config, guile-snarf and guile-tools
Installed Libraries: libguile-2.0.so and libguilereadline-v-18.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/guile, /usr/lib/guile, /usr/share/doc/guile-2.2.4 and /usr/share/guile

### Short Descriptions

guile | is a stand-alone Scheme interpreter for Guile.
guile-config | is a Guile script which provides the information necessary to link your programs against the Guile library, in much the same way PkgConfig does.
guile-snarf | is a script to parse declarations in your C code for Scheme visible C functions.
guild | is a wrapper program installed along with guile, which knows where a particular module is installed and calls it, passing its arguments to the program.
guile-tools | is a symlink to guild.

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