From 50a36a9a826f420d62c6e96739e6368f2563b81c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dos-reis Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:21:44 +0000 Subject: Update installation instructions. --- INSTALL | 28 ++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'INSTALL') diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 1da4d7ad..1e475f4e 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ Requirements OpenAxiom currenly requires a Lisp system for its runtime support. OpenAxiom is known to build with the GNU Common Lisp (GCL versions 2.6.7 -or 2.6.8), Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL version 1.0.x or higher), and -CLisp (version 2.44.x or higher). So, if you already have any of the -above mentioned Lisp system, your are good to go. Otherwise, you -would need to download a dependency tarball from OpenAxiom's download -web site. See instructions below. +or 2.6.8), Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL version 1.0.x or higher), +CLisp (version 2.44.x or higher), and ECL (version 0.9l or higher). +So, if you already have any of the above mentioned Lisp system, your +are good to go. Otherwise, you would need to download a dependency +tarball from OpenAxiom's download web site. See instructions below. OpenAxiom needs `noweb' for extracting its source codes. If you don't have running `noweb' utilities, you would need to either download the @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ If any of GCL or noweb is missing from the environment environment where you're building, then you need to either separately install them, or download the dependency tarball - open-axiom-1.1.x-dep.tar.bz2 + open-axiom-1.2.x-dep.tar.bz2 Please, notice that GCL and noweb are needed only to *build* OpenAxiom. If you plan to build OpenAxiom often, then it probably is @@ -46,23 +46,23 @@ environment, then you should add the option --enable-gcl to the configure command line. In short, add --enable-gcl if you specifically insist on GCL as the base Lisp runtime system. -1.a. Download the dependency tarball open-axiom-1.1.x-dep.tar.bz2 +1.a. Download the dependency tarball open-axiom-1.2.x-dep.tar.bz2 1.b. Decompress the dependency tarball - tar jxfv open-axiom-1.1.x-dep.tar.bz2 + tar jxfv open-axiom-1.2.x-dep.tar.bz2 That should decompress the dependency tarball in a directory -named open-axiom-1.1.x. Rename it to open-axiom-1.2.0, e.g.: +named open-axiom-1.2.x. Rename it to open-axiom-1.3.0, e.g.: - mv open-axiom-1.1.x open-axiom-1.2.0 + mv open-axiom-1.2.x open-axiom-1.3.0 2. Building OpenAxiom ------------------ It is assumed you have already downloaded open-axiom source tarball, -e.g. open-axiom-1.2.0.tar.bz2. +e.g. open-axiom-1.3.0.tar.bz2. Note: If you don't have GCL or noweb in the build environment, please make sure that you have either followed the instructions in step 1., @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ or have separately installed them before proceeding. 2.a. Decompress the OpenAxiom source tarball - tar jfxv open-axiom-1.2.0.tar.bz2 + tar jfxv open-axiom-1.3.0.tar.bz2 2.b. Configure OpenAxiom @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ system from there: mkdir build-oa cd build-oa - ../open-axiom-1.2.0/configure + ../open-axiom-1.3.0/configure It is possible to tell configure where to put the final OpenAxiom executables. By default, when you just type in configure like above, @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ it will configure the system with prefix /usr/local. You can instead say where you want it to be installed, let's say /banana/space. You would then have typed - ../open-axiom-1.2.0/configure --prefix=/banana/space + ../open-axiom-1.3.0/configure --prefix=/banana/space This is recommended, especially if you already have a different software, not OpenAxiom, the executable filename of which is also called `axiom'. -- cgit v1.2.3