--- gforth/INSTALL 1995/06/07 10:05:01 1.9 +++ gforth/INSTALL 1995/11/13 18:37:09 1.12 @@ -48,13 +48,71 @@ Now you can check whether your shiny new make test -To make the documentation, type +You can run some benchmarks with -make -k gforth.info gforth.ps html +make bench + +and compare them with the results in Benchres and in the manual. If everything is allright, you may want to install gforth. Type make install -You have to make an entry in the info directory file manually. Also, -you have to install gforth.ps and html yourself. +You have to make an entry in the info directory file manually. + +For paper documentation, print gforth.ps (a Postscript file (300dpi +fonts, i.e., it works, but does not produce best quality on better +printers)), or say + +make gforth.dvi + +and print the resulting file gforth.dvi. You can also get the +documentation in HTML format by typing + +make html + + Multiple Versions and Deinstallation + +Several versions of Gforth can be installed and used at the same +time. Version `foo' can be invoked with `gforth-foo'. We recommend to +keep the old version for some time after a new one has been installed. + +You can deinstall this version of Gforth with 'make uninstall' and +version foo with 'make uninstall VERSION=foo'. 'make uninstall' also +tells you how to uninstall Gforth completely. + + A Possible Problem + +You need to read this only if you see a message like + +"gforth: Cannot load nonrelocatable image (compiled for address 0x1234) at address 0x5678 +The Gforth installer should look into the INSTALL file" + +Gforth supports both relocatable and fixed-address images. If you load +normal Forth code and save the image, you get a fixed-address +image. Producing a relocatable image is more difficult. + +Therefore, Gforth has only a relocatable image of the kernel +(kernal.fi), which is powerful enough to load the rest of +Gforth. However, loading the rest takes a noticable amount of time. To +avoid this delay (which would occur on every startup), the +installation procedure produces an image fixed at an address +determined at the Gforth run that produced the image. This +fixed-address image is loaded by default. On most OSs this works, +because the first chunk of memory is always allocated at the same +address. If the address changes, you get the message above. + +An image address change can be caused by a change of the gforth +executable, or by a change (upgrade) of the OS; in these cases you +just have to rebuild and reinstall the fixed address image with + +rm gforth.fi; make gforth.fi; make install + +If you get such a message with a different address in place of the +0x5678 each time you try to start gforth, you cannot use fixed-address +images on your OS. In this case, send us a message so that we start +searching for a comfortable solution to this problem. In the +meantime, start gforth with + +gforth -i kernal.fi startup.fs +