Re: Issue 2360 in lilypond: Scheme sandbox fails to load readline module

[lilypond]

Comment #11 on issue 2360 by address@hidden: Scheme sandbox fails to load  
readline module
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2360

Advice for verification: the reported problem was that the scheme-sandbox  
produces a failure while attempting to load the readline library.  The  
nature of the "fix" is to not even try, so by default command line editing  
will not be available.  Instead, the user initialization file for general  
guile sessions is loaded, and the documentation states how you can activate  
readline in there.

The underlying problem, namely that the readline library has to be  
available before it can get loaded, persists, it just has been  
made "somebody else's problem".

Using the user initialization file is actually the best method to ensure a  
consistent user experience and place overall preferences like readline.

For our full-size packagings, it might be worth considering to package  
readline and its guile bindings.  That would likely fall in the  
responsibility of the GUB setup, however.