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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2009-09-09 00:04:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2009-09-09 00:04:47 +0200 |
| commit | cab6e6c0410f07b0f414215fec89842deb0a0792 (patch) | |
| tree | 82a983b9134f20b15cbdad7123fb4e98c5453cff /README | |
| parent | 0588379a2aeddc7346e9d57daa2e26f98ec7c4fd (diff) | |
Update `README'.
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| -rw-r--r-- | README | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ Guile depends on the following external libraries. - libintl - libltdl - libunistring +- libgc It will also use the libreadline library if it is available. For each of these there is a corresponding --with-XXX-prefix option that you can use when invoking ./configure, if you have these libraries @@ -68,12 +69,12 @@ Guile requires the following external packages: - GNU MP, at least version 4.1 GNU MP is used for bignum arithmetic. It is available from - http://swox.com/gmp + http://gmplib.org/ . - - libltdl from libtool, at least from libtool version 1.5.6 + - libltdl from GNU Libtool, at least version 1.5.6 libltdl is used for loading extensions at run-time. It is - available from http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/ + available from http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/ . - GNU libunistring @@ -81,6 +82,12 @@ 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 (aka. the Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector) is the + conservative garbage collector used by Guile. It is available + from http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/ . + Special Instructions For Some Systems ===================================== |