Update of /project/elephant/cvsroot/elephant/doc In directory clnet:/tmp/cvs-serv8074/doc

Modified Files: installation.texinfo user-guide.texinfo Log Message: Final changes to build process for prebuilt windows files, documenting user configuration options, enabling clsql-lib load paths and some installation manual edits

--- /project/elephant/cvsroot/elephant/doc/installation.texinfo 2007/04/29 21:54:51 1.14 +++ /project/elephant/cvsroot/elephant/doc/installation.texinfo 2007/04/30 00:38:31 1.15 @@ -246,6 +246,10 @@ @comment node-name, next, previous, up @section Setting up Berkeley DB

+We recommend that you download and build a distribution from Oracle. +Some problems have been reported with linking to Debian, Cygwin or +other packages. This is especially true for Windows users. + Beyond ensuring that the file ``my-config.sexp'' points to your BDB installation directories and files, nothing else should be required to configure the example that uses a local ``testdb'' directory as a @@ -428,13 +432,20 @@ @comment node-name, next, previous, up @section Elephant on Windows

-The build process on Windows currently only works with GCC under Cygwin. -The process can be a bit tricky, so if it doesn't work out of the box, -we recommend that you download the DLLs from the Elephant website -download page (@url{http://www.common-lisp.net/project/elephant/downloads.html%27%7D). - -Unpack the .zip file into the elephant root directory. Then run the batch file -``copy-dll.bat'' to move them into their proper directory. +The build process on Windows currently only works with GCC under +Cygwin. The process can be a bit tricky, so if it doesn't work out of +the box or you don't want to install cygwin, we recommend that you +download the DLLs from the Elephant website download page +(@url{http://www.common-lisp.net/project/elephant/downloads.html%27%7D). + +Unpack the .zip file into the elephant root directory. Ensure that +your @code{my-config.sexp} file configuration for Windows has +@code{:prebuilt-binaries} set to ``t'' so it will know to look in +the elephant root during the asdf loading process. + +For Berkeley DB users we recommend downloading the Windows binary +distribution of Berkeley DB 4.5 to minimize any potential linking +issues.

@node Test Suites @comment node-name, next, previous, up --- /project/elephant/cvsroot/elephant/doc/user-guide.texinfo 2007/04/28 14:24:57 1.21 +++ /project/elephant/cvsroot/elephant/doc/user-guide.texinfo 2007/04/30 00:38:31 1.22 @@ -1555,7 +1555,7 @@ described in config.sexp. They are:

@itemize -@item @code{:map-using-degree2} - Improve the efficiency of cursor traversals +@item @code{:berkeley-db-map-degree2} - Improve the efficiency of cursor traversals in the various mapping functions. Defaults to true, meaning a value you just read while mapping may change before the traversal is done. So if you operate only on the current cursor location, you are