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 [1]: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs-1.8/guile-ref/Loading-Readline-Support.html#Loading-Readline-Support [2]: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2002-07/msg01343.html
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