Salutations!
I have a question about scsh installation. In particular, if I build
scsh, then do make install, say with the default prefix of /usr/local, I
wind up with a whole load of directories under /usr/local/lib/scsh, such
scsh, big, vm etc. These all contain Scheme source code, and I'm
wondering if these files are ever used, as I thought all of the stuff
was loaded into the standard scsh heap image that gets built by doing
make. Are they perhaps used only when building new heap images, or are
they there only for reference purposes?
The reason I ask this is because I am currently attempting to build an
rpm package for scsh, and on my Pentium running Linux, the files
installed amount to around 7M. I feel this is a little too much to ask
of someone if they just want to install it to run a script that some
nuisance (like me) has written in scsh. So I was thinking of removing
unnecessary files (if they are unnecessary), and/or splitting the
installed files into a basic set just needed for running scripts or
prebuilt heap images, those needed for building new heap images, those
needed for generating C code interfaces etc.
Any guidance on what installed files are needed for what is greatly
appreciated.
Regards
M.Beach
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