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			ECL Installation Guide
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SHORT OVERVIEW:

  The following commands perform a standard installation:

  ./configure
  make
  make install


BUILDING AND INSTALLATION:

1) Make sure your system has enough swapping space allocated to handle
   a program whose pure code is 900k bytes and whose data area is at
   least 400k and can reach 4Mb or more.

   Building ECL requires about 10 Mb of disk space (including the ECL
   sources).  Once installed, ECL occupies about 4 Mb in the file
   system where it is installed; this includes the executable files
   and on-line documentation.

2) Edit the file `site.lsp' to replace the site names with your own.

3) In the top directory of the ECL distribution, run the program `configure'
   as follows:

    ./configure

   This program figures out the machine where it is running and
   creates a directory <machine> where to perform the installation.
   If the program fails to recognize the machine, you will have to
   check whether it is one of the supported machines present in
   `src/h/machine.h'

   It is possible to give specific options to configure in the following way:

    ./configure CONFIGURATION-NAME [--OPTION[=VALUE]] ...

   Try

   ./configure -help 

   for a list of the options.

4) Run `make' in the top directory to finish bulding ECL.
   The final executable will be in <machine>/ecl.
   To install the executable, manual and info files, run `make install'.


Enjoy

Giuseppe Attardi
  Dipartimento di Informatica
  corso Italia 40
  I-56125 Pisa, Italy
  net: attardi@di.unipi.it

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