Should this be reported as a Guile bug? I have built Guile 2.0.7 in a recent version of Cygwin environment under Windows 7. Readline support doesn't work. E.g.:
# $ guile --version # guile (GNU Guile) 2.0.7 # ... # $ guile -c "(use-modules (ice-9 readline))" This gives a long trace output ending in: # 2797: 3 [#<procedure 801d4690 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:2787:17 ()>] # In unknown file: # ?: 2 [primitive-load-path "ice-9/readline" #f] # In ice-9/readline.scm: # 43: 1 [#<procedure 801d0000 ()>] #In unknown file: # ?: 0 [load-extension "libguilereadline-v-18" "scm_init_readline"] # # ERROR: In procedure load-extension: # ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link: file: "libguilereadline-v-18", message: "The specified module could not be found." There appear to be readline header files and library on my PC: # $ ls /usr/lib/libreadline.* /usr/include/readline/* # /usr/include/readline/chardefs.h /usr/include/readline/rlstdc.h # /usr/include/readline/history.h /usr/include/readline/rltypedefs.h # /usr/include/readline/keymaps.h /usr/include/readline/tilde.h # /usr/include/readline/readline.h /usr/lib/libreadline.a # /usr/include/readline/rlconf.h /usr/lib/libreadline.dll.a As well as the readline module in the Guile package directory: # $ ls software/packages/guile-2.0.7/lib/ # guile libguile-2.0.la libguilereadline-v-18.la # libguile-2.0.a libguilereadline-v-18.a pkgconfig # $ ls software/packages/guile-2.0.7/share/guile/2.0/ice-9/readline.scm # software/packages/guile-2.0.7/share/guile/2.0/ice-9/readline.scm Guile was built with the following commands: # LIBFFI_CFLAGS=-I/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.5.3/include LIBFFI_LIBS="-lffi -L/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.5.3" ./configure --prefix=$HOME/software/packages/guile-2.0.7 # make # make install During the configure stage, there was an indication that readline library is found: # checking how to link with libreadline... -lreadline # ... # checking for rl_getc_function pointer in readline... yes # ... # config.status: creating guile-readline/Makefile However, during the "make" stage, the following messages were seen: Making all in guile-readline make[2]: Entering directory `/home/akopps/software/src/guile-2.0.7/guile-readline' SNARF readline.x make all-am make[3]: Entering directory `/home/akopps/software/src/guile-2.0.7/guile-readline' CC readline.lo CCLD libguilereadline-v-18.la *** Warning: This system can not link to static lib archive ../libguile/libguile-2.0.la. *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when *** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have. *** Warning: linker path does not have real file for library -lreadline. *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when *** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have *** because I did check the linker path looking for a file starting *** with libreadline but no candidates were found. (...for file magic test)
