> On 4 Dec 2014, at 18:23, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Hans Aberg <haber...@telia.com> skribis: > >>> On 3 Dec 2014, at 23:21, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: >>> >>> Could it be because Guile is being compiled against libeditline instead >>> of GNU Readline? >>> >>> Readline support in Guile requires GNU Readline. >> >> It looked as though that the readline in the Guile distribution is too >> old - no other readline installed on the system. > > Actually there’s no Readline in Guile itself, just the guile-readline > bindings.
I think the binding problem was that what Guile expected to be in one file, readline now has in several. >> I just installed the latest GNU readline into /usr/local/, and then >> Guile compiled. > > OK, so I guess it was really libeditline’s Readline semi-compatibility > shim that was being used. Yes, there was some compatibility file, with the problem as above. > Closing this bug now. OK.