7.1.1 SLIB installation

The following procedure works, e.g., with SLIB version 3a3 (see SLIB installation in The SLIB Portable Scheme Library):

1. Unpack SLIB and install it using make install from its directory. By default, this will install SLIB in /usr/local/lib/slib/. Running make install-info installs its documentation, by default under /usr/local/info/.
2. Define the SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable:

   $ SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/slib/
   $ export SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH
   

   Alternatively, you can create a symlink in the Guile directory to SLIB, e.g.:

   ln -s /usr/local/lib/slib /usr/local/share/guile/3.0/slib
   

3. Use Guile to create the catalog file, e.g.,:

   # guile
   guile> (use-modules (ice-9 slib))
   guile> (require 'new-catalog)
   guile> (quit)
   

   The catalog data should now be in /usr/local/share/guile/3.0/slibcat.

   If instead you get an error such as:

   Unbound variable: scheme-implementation-type
   

   then a solution is to get a newer version of Guile, or to modify ice-9/slib.scm to use define-public for the offending variables.