Welcome to SBCL.
+If you'd like to install or build the system, see the "INSTALL" file.
+
To find out more about who created the system, see the "CREDITS" file.
If you'd like information about the legalities of copying the system,
see the "COPYING" file.
-If you'd like to install or build the system, see the "INSTALL" file.
-
If you'd like more information about using the system, see the man
-page, "sbcl.1", or the user manual in the "doc/" subdirectory of the
-distribution. (The user manual is maintained as DocBook SGML in the
-source distribution; there is an HTML version in the binary
-distribution.)
+page, "sbcl.1", or the user manual in the "doc/manual" subdirectory of
+the distribution. (The user manual is maintained as Texinfo in the
+source distribution; HTML version is available for download, and
+"INSTALL" describes how to build the Texinfo version in HTML and PDF.)
The system is a work in progress. See the "TODO" file in the source
distribution for some highlights.
+The "BUGS" file lists current known bugs.
+
If you'd like to make suggestions, report a bug, or help to improve the
system, please send mail to one of the mailing lists:
sbcl-help@lists.sourceforge.net
sbcl-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
+Note that as a spam reduction measure you must subscribe to the lists
+before you can post.
SYSTEM-SPECIFIC HINTS
-for OpenBSD:
- It's reported for CMU CL (by Darren Bane on the comp.lang.lisp newsgroup,
- 2002-04-22) that OpenBSD 3.0 has stricter ulimit values, and/or enforces
- them more strictly, than its predecessors, and so CMU CL's initial mmap()
- won't work unless you increase the limit on the data segment, e.g. with
- ulimit -S -d 524288
- before you run CMU CL. The same is probably true of SBCL, but hasn't been
- tested yet. (As of sbcl-0.7.3, SBCL has only been tested on OpenBSD 2.9
- and earlier.)
+for NetBSD:
+ NetBSD 2.0 and above are required because of the lack of needed
+ signal APIs in NetBSD 1.6 and earlier.