X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=7cc416dfdf558151d46284f65bf4d455501efac8;hb=df217516b1ee2c0d1fa241b97c540f2d8eb9a805;hp=86deff38f76378c403f7e2f772164ed6e8c6b8ad;hpb=813b74a759a6be594065dd75741d035a61e23d72;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/README b/README index 86deff3..7cc416d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -2,17 +2,18 @@ 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 Texinfo in the source -distribution; HTML version is available for download.) +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. @@ -32,15 +33,3 @@ 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() - won't work unless you increase the limit on the data segment from - the OpenBSD defaults, e.g. with - ulimit -S -d 1000000 - before you run SBCL. Otherwise SBCL fails with a message like - "ensure_space: failed to validate xxxxxxx bytes at yyyyy". (SBCL - is just allocating this huge address space, not actually using this - huge memory at this point. OpenBSD <3.0 had no problem with this, - but OpenBSD 3.0 is less hospitable.)