I closed the issue for you. Happy hacking, Olivier
On Wed, 19 Aug 2026, Augustine Benjamin <[email protected]> wrote: > Tomas Volf got back to me about this last month: I'd had the readline package > installed via dnf at version 8.something, I just needed the development > version of the package to make the libraries available. > > Is there a ticket on this still open somewhere that I need to close to > indicate my problem's been solved? > > > Sent from Proton Mail for Android. > > -------- Original Message -------- > On Wednesday, 08/19/26 at 09:42 Olivier Dion <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- Olivier Dion
