Re: No readline in scheme-sandbox

[David Sumbler]

On Fri, 2016-10-21 at 17:44 +0200, Thomas Morley wrote:
> 2016-10-21 17:00 GMT+02:00 David Sumbler <address@hidden>:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 13:59 +0100, David Sumbler wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 11:34 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > David Sumbler <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Given that, on my 64-bit Linux system, I have Guile 1.8
> > > > > installed
> > > > > complete with readline, I'd be very grateful if somebody
> > > > > could
> > > > > explain
> > > > > to me how I can get readline to load when I type 'lilypond
> > > > > scheme-
> > > > > sandbox' with Lilypond v.2.19.40 .
> > > > Did you compile LilyPond yourself?
> > > (There is an error in my previous email: I have Lilypond
> > > v.2.19.48)
> > > 
> > > I downloaded lilypond-2.19.48-1.linux-64.sh from http://lilypond.
> > > org/
> > > de
> > > velopment.html and then ran
> > > 
> > > sudo sh ./lilypond-2.19.48-1.linux-64.sh --doc
> > > 
> > > David
> > Sorry to keep banging on about this, but I can't help feeling that
> > somebody must know the answer!
> > 
> > My .guile file reads:
> > 
> > (use-modules (ice-9 readline))
> > (activate-readline)
> > 
> > I find the following:
> > 
> > 1)
> > 
> > If I run 'lilypond scheme-sandbox' I get a message saying:
> > 
> > /usr/local/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
> > 
> > In 'top' I can see that the actual running command is
> > '/usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond scheme-sandbox'.
> > 
> > 2)
> > 
> > If I run '/usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond scheme-sandbox'
> > directly
> > from the command line, I get guile complete with readline.
> > 
> > 
> > This doesn't actually matter too much now that I have discovered
> > that
> > the longer form of the command works as expected, even though the
> > shorter one doesn't.
> > 
> > But how is it that I get different results from two command line
> > entries which end up running the same actual command?
> > 
> > David
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > lilypond-user mailing list
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> > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
> Hi David,
> 
> I had a look in scheme-sandbox.ly. I quote the entire file:
> 
> %%%% file begin
> 
> \version "2.16.0"
> 
> #(load-user-init)
> 
> % This loads the user's .guile file for interactive sessions.
> % One typical thing you might want to put there is
> % (use-modules (ice-9 readline))
> % (activate-readline)
> % in order to activate command line editing for interactive sessions.
> % You need libreadline support and the respective Guile module to be
> % installed for that.  In Debian, for example, this is part of the
> % guile-1.8-libs package.  Depending on your system and version, the
> % requirements may be different.
> 
> #(newline)
> #(scm-style-repl)
> 
> %%%% file end
> 
> So silly question: do you have the guile-1.8-libs package?

Yes.  The output from 'aptitude search guile-1.8-libs' is:

i A guile-1.8-libs
p   guile-1.8-libs:i386

David