For the record, the readline problem was because I had not ./configure'ed readline ---with-curses. I think that guile's autoconf test program makes this assumption. The assumption is probably reasonable if most distributions do this, but it is strictly speaking a bug in the autoconf detection of readline.
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:02 PM, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> wrote: > Hi Ian, > > Three questions: > > 1. What is the output of "pkg-config --libs libffi" on your system? > 2. What is the output of "grep '^LIBFFI' libguile/Makefile"? > 3. What is the output of "grep '^READLINE_LIBS' libguile/Makefile"? > > Thanks, > Mark