From: Alan Grover <awgrover@msen.com>
Subject: Documentation on SLIB use is inadequate
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:33:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <432AD7A6.9010508@msen.com> (raw)
[-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1297 bytes --]
Summary: The documentation on SLIB use is inadequate and/or out-of-date
Guile version 1.6.4, "edition 1.0 of the reference manual, corresponding
to Guile version 1.6.4"
SLIB 3a2
SLIB was not included with my distribution of Guile (a source package
from gnu.org). This should be made clear in the documentation:
"SLIB is no longer included with Guile distributions. You must obtain
and install it (see <next> section)."
The installation procedure does not work, and needs to be updated:
* How to test for correct installation of SLIB. E.g. guile -c
"(use-modules (ice-9 slib)) (require 'byte )"
* Obtain SLIB from http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB.html (current
version as of 9/16/2005 is 3a2). Or, specify correct version.
* There is some indication that the slibcat file will be
created/populated automatically by the ice-9/slib.scm module. Though
this does not appear to work (at least with 3a2). In any event, this
initialization step would need to be performed under an account that can
write to slibcat (typically root).
* The installation instructions that are supplied with SLIB do not work
and are not the same instructions as in the Guile documentation.
* See bug just submitted "SLIB 3a2 does not work with Guile 1.6.4"
--
Alan Grover
awgrover@mail.msen.com
+1.734.476.0969
[-- Attachment #1.2: OpenPGP digital signature --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 256 bytes --]
[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 137 bytes --]
_______________________________________________
Bug-guile mailing list
Bug-guile@gnu.org
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guile
next reply other threads:[~2005-09-16 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-16 14:33 Alan Grover [this message]
2005-09-17 1:11 ` Documentation on SLIB use is inadequate Kevin Ryde
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=432AD7A6.9010508@msen.com \
--to=awgrover@msen.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).