The guile-readline extension is part of the source code of Guile, under the guile-readline/ directory:
guile-readline/ ├── ChangeLog-2008 ├── ice-9 │ └── readline.scm ├── Makefile.am ├── Makefile.in ├── readline.c └── readline.h However, for it to be built, Autotools must be able to find the readline library. Maybe this is missing on your installation? On Thu, 23 Jul 2026, Augustine Benjamin via "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" <[email protected]> wrote: > I recently built Guile Scheme from source starting with code from > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-3.0.11.tar.gz, and the instructions at > https://codeberg.org/guile/guile and > http://doc.guix.gnu.org/guile/latest/en/html_node/Obtaining-and-Installing-Guile.html. > The latest version of the manual mentions a module `(ice-9 readline)` > that lets the Guile repl use the GNU readline library for convenience, > but when attempting to run `(use-modules (ice-9 readline))` I get an > error saying there is no code for the module. Indeed, it doesn't appear > to come with the copy of the source that I have, and looking at the source at > codeberg.org, I don't see an ice-9/readline.scm. I think either I was > supposed to build differently, or it is missing from the source, or the > reference manual shouldn't assert that new users have access to the > module, but I'm not sure which of these are the case. > > (I understand that the expected way for me to install Guile is via my > distribution's > package manager, but the Guile 3.0 that fedora offers comes missing some > pieces, most obviously the Guile reference manual. That's why I decided to > build from source instead.) > > Thank you for your time > > Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) secure email. -- Olivier Dion
