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Subject:	Re: GNU Guile 1.8.7 - readline is not provided
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On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, [UTF-8] Róbert Kohányi wrote:
> Subject: GNU Guile 1.8.7 - readline is not provided
>
> Using a fresh installation of Cygwin with GNU Guile (during the
> install process I've only selected this latter package explicitly)
> I've tried to use Guile's readline support[1] unsuccessfully.
>
> As the documentation told me to, I've created a configuration file
> (.guile) in my home directory and started Guile, but it raised an
> error (guile.out) and I don't understand why.
>
> I've searched the mailing lists and found a previous release
> announcement[2] where the package maintainer said that the readline
> support is "OK" (although it was a previous release of Guile -- 1.5.x)
> and listed the required libraries for it to work. During the install
> all of these libraries were installed by setup.exe transitively
> (cygcheck.out).
>
> Is this a bug in the release or readline support is omitted from
> Guile's Cygwin version on purpose?
>
> If the latter holds it would be nice to know: "why?". Can't Guile be
> build with this feature enabled?
>
> Regards,
> Robert

Hi Robert,

I had a similar problem recently. I don't know if what you are
experiencing is the same or not, but it probably is: Incomplete download
and a (to my mind) broken dependency engine. Readline is fundamental, but
when it was missing from my download - how, I have NO idea - none of the
concluding scripts that are supposed to run after an installation
completes actually ran.

The solution was easy enough; Do the download part again, and explicitly
include readline. Note that this mechanism of reloading also easily
verified that that was in fact the problem because it didn't show up in
the list of packages to possibly upgrade, delete, or whathaveyou. Merely
pointing to a different repository solved the problem.

I don't understand how the dependency engine lets this happen, but it
does.

Good luck,
Richard

-- 
Richard Troy, Chief Scientist
Science Tools Corporation
rtroy AT ScienceTools DOT com, http://ScienceTools.com/


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