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replced tester.fs and coretest.fs with the new versions from John Hayes
make mostlyclean virtualclean added
Cache-flushing now works on the Alpha (other minor changes there)
configure now uses gcc by default and passes its GCC variable to the Makefile
introduced sourcefilename and sourceline# (and used them in many places).
1: You need gcc version 2.0 or later to compile gforth.
2:
3: First, type
4:
5: ./configure
6:
7: configure has the following useful parameters:
8: --prefix=PREFIX install architecture-independent files in PREFIX
9: [default: /usr/local]
10: --exec-prefix=PREFIX install architecture-dependent files in PREFIX
11: [default: same as prefix]
12: --enable-force-reg Use explicit register declarations if they appear in
13: the machine.h file. This can cause a good speedup,
14: but also incorrect code with some gcc versions on
15: some processors (default disabled).
16: --enable-direct-threaded Force direct threading. This may not work on
17: some machines and may cause slowdown on others.
18: (default processor-dependent)
19: --enable-indirect-threaded Force indirect threading. This can cause a
20: slowdown on some machines.
21: (default processor-dependent)
22: --with-debug specifies option -g to compile with debug info (default)
23: --without-debug omits the -g switch and creates smaller images on
24: machines where strip has problems with gcc style
25: debugging informations.
26: --help: tells you about other parameters.
27:
28: If you don't like the defaults for the installation directories, you
29: should override them already during configure. E.g., if you want to
30: install in the /gnu hierarchy instead of in the default /usr/local
31: hierarchy, say
32:
33: ./configure --prefix=/gnu
34:
35: Moreover, if your GCC is not called gcc (but, e.g., gcc-2.7.1), you
36: should say so during configuration:
37:
38: env GCC=gcc-2.7.1 ./configure
39:
40: After, configuration, type
41:
42: make
43:
44: Now you can check whether your shiny new Forth system works. Say
45:
46: make test
47:
48: You can run some benchmarks with
49:
50: make bench
51:
52: and compare them with the results in Benchres and in the manual.
53:
54: If everything is all right, you may want to install gforth. Type
55:
56: make install
57:
58: You have to make an entry in the info directory file manually.
59:
60: For paper documentation, print gforth.ps (a Postscript file (300dpi
61: fonts, i.e., it works, but does not produce best quality on better
62: printers)), or say
63:
64: make gforth.dvi
65:
66: and print the resulting file gforth.dvi. You can also get the
67: documentation in HTML format by typing
68:
69: make html
70:
71:
72: Preloading installation-specific code
73:
74: If you want to have some installation-specific files loaded when
75: Gforth starts (e.g., an assembler for your processor), put commands
76: for loading them into /usr/local/share/gforth/site-forth/site-init.fs
77: (if the commands work for all architectures) or
78: /usr/local/lib/gforth/site-forth/site-init.fs (for
79: architecture-specific commands);
80: /usr/local/lib/gforth/site-forth/site-init.fs takes precedence if both
81: files are present (unless you change the search path). The file names
82: given above are the defaults; if you have changed the prefix, you have
83: to replace "/usr/local" in these names with your prefix.
84:
85: By default, the installation procedure creates an empty
86: /usr/local/share/gforth/site-forth/site-init.fs if there is no such
87: file.
88:
89: If you change the site-init.fs file, you should run "make install"
90: again for the changes to take effect (Actually, the part of "make
91: install" starting with "rm gforth.fi" is sufficient).
92:
93:
94: Multiple Versions and Deinstallation
95:
96: Several versions of Gforth can be installed and used at the same
97: time. Version `foo' can be invoked with `gforth-foo'. We recommend to
98: keep the old version for some time after a new one has been installed.
99:
100: You can deinstall this version of Gforth with 'make uninstall' and
101: version foo with 'make uninstall VERSION=foo'. 'make uninstall' also
102: tells you how to uninstall Gforth completely.
103:
104:
105: A Possible Problem
106:
107: You need to read this only if you see a message like
108:
109: "gforth: Cannot load nonrelocatable image (compiled for address 0x1234) at address 0x5678
110: The Gforth installer should look into the INSTALL file"
111:
112: Gforth supports both relocatable and fixed-address images. If you load
113: normal Forth code and save the image, you get a fixed-address
114: image. Producing a relocatable image is more difficult.
115:
116: Therefore, Gforth has only a relocatable image of the kernel
117: (kernal.fi), which is powerful enough to load the rest of
118: Gforth. However, loading the rest takes a noticable amount of time. To
119: avoid this delay (which would occur on every startup), the
120: installation procedure produces an image fixed at an address
121: determined at the Gforth run that produced the image. This
122: fixed-address image is loaded by default. On most OSs this works,
123: because the first chunk of memory is always allocated at the same
124: address. If the address changes, you get the message above.
125:
126: An image address change can be caused by a change of the gforth
127: executable, or by a change (upgrade) of the OS; in these cases you
128: just have to rebuild and reinstall the fixed address image with
129:
130: rm gforth.fi; make gforth.fi; make install
131:
132: If you get such a message with a different address in place of the
133: 0x5678 each time you try to start gforth, you cannot use fixed-address
134: images on your OS. In this case, send us a message so that we start
135: searching for a comfortable solution to this problem. In the
136: meantime, start gforth with
137:
138: gforth -i kernal.fi startup.fs
139:
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