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Re: libreadline.so.2 not working w/ guile-1.3 and newer



> FYI, it seems guile 1.3 and recent snapshots don't interact well w/
> libreadline.so.2 on Linux and Solaris systems (not sure exact version
> numbers).  The behavior is that the function `readline' is not made
> available to Scheme code.  This was reported by Norm Matloff (CC'ed)
> when trying to use THUD.
> 
> The solution is to upgrade to libreadline.so.3.

What's Guile's failure mode?  Does it crash, or just not give you
command-line editing?  The latter would be acceptable; Guile requires
recent readlines.  The former would be a bug.