Installing S-Lang

S-Lang is an platform-independent interpreted extension language and a set of screen and I/O facilities (it can handle colour ASCII displays). Used in the editor jed, the news reader slrn, and the mail reader mutt.

Web: http://www.s-lang.org/
http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slang.html
Ftp: ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/slang/
  user: gzcat slang-1.4.0.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
  Extract the source files.
  user: cd slang-1.4.0
  user: ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnu
  user: make
  user: make runtests CC=gcc
  The CC=gcc is needed to get the tests to compile correctly as the definition of CC does not seem to be propogated correctly.
  user: su
Password:
  root: make install
  root: exit
  user: make elf
  user: su
Password:
  root: make install-elf
  root: make install-links
  root: exit
  user: make clean

In order to use the dynamically linked libraries, the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable should include the directory /opt/gnu/lib.