Re: No readline in scheme-sandbox

[David Sumbler]

On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 09:02 +0100, David Sumbler wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-10-16 at 23:09 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> > 
> > David Sumbler <address@hidden> writes:
> > > 
> > > On Sun, 2016-10-16 at 21:19 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > David Sumbler <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Further to the above, I find that if I type
> > > > > 
> > > > > /usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/guile
> > > > > 
> > > > > then readline works just fine.
> > > > Guile 2.0
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > >  But not when guile is invoked with
> > > > > 
> > > > > lilypond scheme-sandbox
> > > > Guile 1.8
> > > Sorry, this hasn't helped me.
> > > 
> > > True, if I type 'guile' it runs /usr/bin/guile-2.0, but if I type
> > > /usr/bin/guile-1.8 readline also works.
> > That's the system installation of Guile, not the one used in
> > LilyPond.
> > 
> > > 
> > > Presumably when I type 'lilypond scheme-sandbox' it runs the
> > > guile at
> > > /usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/guile, rather than the one in
> > > /usr/bin/.
> > LilyPond doesn't run any Guile executable.  It just loads the Guile
> > REPL and runs it in LilyPond as LilyPond is linked with libguile.
> I don't quite understand that, but may be it's not important for me
> to understand.
> > > 
> > > 
> > >  As Lilypond seems to have readline files in
> > > /usr/local/lilypond/usr/lib/ and
> > > /usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/guile/1.8/ice-9/
> > > I would have expected readline to work.  Why are the files there
> > > if
> > > they can't be used?
> > Probably you don't have the necessary libraries installed.  Wrong
> > architecture?  Is your LilyPond a 64bit version?
> Yes, I'm running the 64-bit version of Lilypond 2.19.40.
> 
> David

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 .

David