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Re: libguile and readline

Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes:

> Guile's Readline support will become a Guile module which, when
> loaded, will dynamically link the Readline library into Guile.  Thus,
> a program which wants to use readline must explicitly reference the
> readline module in its code.

Doesn't this mean that we cannot use readline on systems which lack
support for dynamic linking?

There should be a way to use readline on such systems as well.  Also,
on some systems it is difficult to debug libraries which are
dynamically linked.

We must find a solution which is practical.  It would be sad if
license problems were allowed to reduce the usefulness of the library.

/mdj