Bug 26585

Summary:	Guile is unable to find its readline library.
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Patrick Meehan <patm>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	geiger.david68210
Version:	7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	guile-2.0.14-3.mga7.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Patrick Meehan 2020-05-03 17:46:21 CEST

Description of problem:

When installing Guile's libguilereadline-v-18-so.0.0 library Guile cannot find and hence activate its readline capabilities.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

guile-2.0.14-3

How reproducible:

Enter Guile's REPL by entering 'guile' at a command prompt. Then enter the following code: (use-modules (ice-9 readline))

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See above.
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Fix:-

As root enter the /usr/lib64 subdirectory and create a new symbolic link using the following command:-

ln -s libguilereadline-v-18.so.0.0 libguilereadline-v-18.so

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2020-05-05 10:29:54 CEST

Thank you for the report (the actual error output might have clarified the issue); and the fix you discovered. That always helps.
The package 'lib64guilereadline18_18' provides the following:-
 /usr/lib64/libguilereadline-v-18.so.18
 /usr/lib64/libguilereadline-v-18.so.18.0.0
of which    libguilereadline-v-18.so        is yet another variant!

Could the same apply for other components?
Guile has no specific maintainer, so assigning this globally.

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs

Comment 2 David GEIGER 2020-05-05 11:01:06 CEST

symlink libguilereadline-v-18.so is in lib(64)guile-devel package, so maybe you have to install it to use the readline module?

CC: (none) => geiger.david68210

Comment 3 Patrick Meehan 2020-05-05 17:27:28 CEST

As far as I am aware you should not need to install any development packages to use Guile's readline module. It is not mentioned in the reference manual. 

There appears to be no impact on other modules. Another simple fix is to use the rlwrap command, which will give the REPL similar capabilities.

Sorry, for not including the error output in my bug report.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED