1. BINARY DISTRIBUTION
1.1. Quick start
- 1.2. Finding ancilliary files
+ 1.2. Finding ancillary files
1.3. Anatomy of SBCL
2. SOURCE DISTRIBUTION
by the environment variable "INSTALL_ROOT".
If you install SBCL from binary distribution in other location then
- "/usr/local", see section 1.2, "Finding ancilliary files".
+ "/usr/local", see section 1.2, "Finding ancillary files".
-1.2. Finding ancilliary files
+1.2. Finding ancillary files
The SBCL runtime needs to be able to find the ancillary files
associated with it: the "sbcl.core" file, and the contrib modules.
passed their tests. If you need to install by hand, see "install.sh"
for details.
- Documentation concists of a man-page, the SBCL Manual (in info, pdf
+ Documentation consists of a man-page, the SBCL Manual (in info, pdf
and html formats), and a few additional text files.
2. SOURCE DISTRIBUTION
If you don't already have an SBCL binary installed as "sbcl" on your
system, you'll need to tell make.sh what Lisp to use as the
- cross-compilation host. For example, to use CMU CL (assuming has
+ cross-compilation host. For example, to use CMUCL (assuming has
been installed under its default name "lisp") as the
cross-compilation host:
Other
- * Check that the host lisp you're building with is known to work
- as an SBCL build host, and the your OS is supported.
+ * Check that the host lisp you're building with is known to work as
+ an SBCL build host, and that your operating system is supported.
* Try to do a build without loading any initialization files
for the cross-compilation host (for example
All of the following platforms are supported in the sense of "should
work", but some things like loading foreign object files may lag
- behind on less-used OS's.
+ behind on less-used operating systems.
Supported toolchains:
Tru64 X
Darwin (Mac OS X) X
- Some OS's are more equal then others: most of the development and
- testing is done on x86 Linux and *BSD, PPC Linux and Mac OS X.
+ Some operating systems are more equal then others: most of the
+ development and testing is done on x86 Linux and *BSD, PPC Linux
+ and Mac OS X.
If an underprivileged platform is important to you, you can help
by eg. testing during the monthly freeze periods, and most