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Re: gak! slib


>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Galassi <rosalia@cygnus.com> writes:

 Mark> Years ago, before Guile was conceived, I tried using JACAL with
 Mark> SCM and I always ran into a stonewall of strangeness in the
 Mark> installation instructions.  Aubrey's awesome mind works in
 Mark> strange ways, 

??

 Mark> and I still don't fully understand how you're supposed to run
 Mark> that package.

Per instructions `(load "math.scm") (math)' worked for me recently in
SCM.  ISTR actually compiling Jacal with Scheme->C long ago so it
can't be too obscure.

The problem with Guile is that the slib support is incomplete and/or
broken, specifically WRT vicinities and procedure visibility.  I went
through some of it but gave up.

Other than running SCM, I suspect the thing to do is to make a normal
slib init file as for other systems (see Template.scm in slib).