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| <h4 class="subsection">23.3.1 Guile Introduction</h4> |
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| <p>Guile is an implementation of the Scheme programming language |
| and is the GNU project's official extension language. |
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| <p>Guile support in <span class="sc">gdb</span> follows the Python support in <span class="sc">gdb</span> |
| reasonably closely, so concepts there should carry over. |
| However, some things are done differently where it makes sense. |
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| <p><span class="sc">gdb</span> requires Guile version 2.0 or greater. |
| Older versions are not supported. |
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| <p><a name="index-guile-scripts-directory-2449"></a>Guile scripts used by <span class="sc">gdb</span> should be installed in |
| <samp><var>data-directory</var><span class="file">/guile</span></samp>, where <var>data-directory</var> is |
| the data directory as determined at <span class="sc">gdb</span> startup (see <a href="Data-Files.html#Data-Files">Data Files</a>). |
| This directory, known as the <dfn>guile directory</dfn>, |
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