Annotation of gforth/INSTALL, revision 1.7

1.7     ! anton       1: You need gcc version 2.0 or later to compile gforth.
1.1       anton       2: 
1.5       anton       3: First, type
1.3       anton       4: 
1.5       anton       5: configure
1.1       anton       6: 
1.4       pazsan      7: configure has the following useful parameters:
                      8: -direct-threaded: setup for a direct threaded interpreter; this is faster
                      9:    on many machines, but needs special support. Unsupported machines will
                     10:    ingore this switch. On some CISC machines, direct threading isn't an
                     11:    advantage over indirect threading.
1.1       anton      12: 
1.4       pazsan     13: -without-debug: omits the -g switch and creates smaller images on machines
                     14:    where "strip" has problems with gcc style debugging informations.
1.1       anton      15: 
1.5       anton      16: --help: tells you about other parameters.
                     17: 
1.4       pazsan     18: Now type
1.2       anton      19: 
1.5       anton      20: make
                     21: 
                     22: If your make has trouble with the Makefile, "make gforth" might work.
1.2       anton      23: 
1.4       pazsan     24: If your installed gcc isn't called "gcc" (eg. called "gcc-2.6.1"), type
1.1       anton      25: 
1.7     ! anton      26: make GCC=<whatever you call your gcc>
1.4       pazsan     27: 
                     28: instead.
1.6       anton      29: 
1.7     ! anton      30: Now you can check whether your shiny new Forth system works. Say
        !            31: 
        !            32: make test
        !            33: 
1.6       anton      34: To make the documentation, type
                     35: 
                     36: make -k gforth.info gforth.ps html
1.7     ! anton      37: 
        !            38: If everything is allright, you may want to install gforth. Type
        !            39: 
        !            40: make install
        !            41: 
        !            42: You may want to override the defaults for the directories. E.g., if
        !            43: you want to install in the /gnu hierarchy instead of in the default
        !            44: /usr/local hirarchy, say
        !            45: 
        !            46: make install prefix=/gnu
        !            47: 
        !            48: Alternatively, you can specify the prefixes with configure.

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