Annotation of gforth/INSTALL.BINDIST, revision 1.3
1.3 ! anton 1: Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
! 2: This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation gives
! 3: unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.
! 4:
1.1 anton 5: This file discribes how to install Gforth from a binary distribution
6: (i.e., a distribution, where the package file name contains a
7: machine/OS name).
8:
9: Installation is quite simple: Type
10:
11: make install
12:
13: and you are set. You can
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1.2 anton 15: make check
1.1 anton 16: make bench
17:
18: first, to make sure that the binary works.
19:
20: If you want to know more: A binary distribution contains all the files
21: of the source distribution, and a few more, in particular the
22: executable `gforth'. The configuration options we used for creating it
23: can be seen in config.status. Basically, we use the default; among
24: other things, this means installation in the /usr/local hierarchy; if
25: this does not suit you, "make distclean" and continue by reading
26: INSTALL.
27:
28: The only deviation from the default is with respect to options like
29: --enable-force-reg, which by default are not used, because they don't
30: work with all versions of gcc; we use them, if they work with the
31: compiler we use. We try to give you good performance, but two
32: compatible machines may require different options for best performance
33: (e.g., --enable-direct-threading is good for the 486, and bad for the
34: Pentium).
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