Re: readline, .guile and ly/scheme-sandbox.ly

[David Kastrup]

Luis Mochan <address@hidden> writes:

> I prepared a .guile file in my home directory with the contents
>   (use-modules (ice-9 readline))
>   (activate-readline)
> If I run guile directly, it works and I have readline available. However, if 
> I run 
>   lilypond scheme-sandbox
> I get the message
>
> GNU LilyPond 2.18.0
> Processing `/home/mochan/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/ly/scheme-
> sandbox.ly'
> Parsing...
> /home/mochan/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/ly/scheme-sandbox.ly:3:2: 
> error: GUILE signaled an error for the expression beginning here
> #
>  (load-user-init)
> readline is not provided in this Guile installation
>
> and readline is not available.
>
> If I remove my .guile file lilypond shows no error, but I still have no 
> readline.

You need to install the readline library.  On my system, it is provided
by the guile-1.8-libs package.  Note that more often than not, any GUILE
provided by the system is GUILE 2.0, and its libraries are not useful
for GUILE 1.8 which LilyPond uses.

-- 
David Kastrup