Subject: Re: bug#19237: Guile-2.0.11 OS X 10.10.1 build error
From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Hans Aberg <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 18:23:36 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hans Aberg <[email-masked]> skribis:

>> On 3 Dec 2014, at 23:21, Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> 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 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.

Closing this bug now.

Thanks,
Ludo’.