X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=09984f36055b86a5e93876dc893eb7b17c3d4d14;hb=171fde84561e232b8af8c05b82dfe8a8f9e08340;hp=5fed77ae5185404c8906b39b9dc87d2df1383c89;hpb=ba38798a5ca26b90647a1993f348806cb32f2d1b;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/README b/README index 5fed77a..09984f3 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -2,30 +2,38 @@ GENERAL INFORMATION 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 NetBSD: + NetBSD 2.0 and above are required because of the lack of needed + signal APIs in NetBSD 1.6 and earlier. + for OpenBSD: OpenBSD 3.0 has stricter ulimit values, and/or enforces them more strictly, than its predecessors. Therefore SBCL's initial mmap()