Re: guile-readling on Irix 6.5, still problematic

[Marius Vollmer <mvo at zagadka dot ping dot de>]

John L Daschbach <d3h486@emsl.pnl.gov> writes:

> cd ~/Gnu/guile-1.3.4/guile-readline/
> make -k 
> /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_STRDUP=1  -I. -I.  -I.. -I./.. -I./../libguile     -g -O2 -c readline.c
> mkdir .libs
> gcc -DHAVE_STRDUP=1 -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -I./../libguile -g -O2 -c  -DPIC readline.c -o .libs/readline.lo
> mv -f .libs/readline.lo readline.o
> ln -s readline.o readline.lo
> /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2  -o libguilereadline.la -rpath /afs/msrc.pnl.gov/files/home/d3h486/Local/lib  readline.lo  -ltermcap 

Note how it doesn't actually link with -lreadline.  I suspect that
configure was not able to find a working libreadline on your system.
Can you also post the output of configure and the file config.log in
the guile-readline subdirectory?

guile-readline behaves in a confusing way when readline is not found,
I think.  What should it do?  Omit building and installing
libguilereadline completely, or install a mostly empty one that
produces a run-time error when one actually tries to use it?

Right now, it installs a totally empty library without even the
scm_init_readline function.

- Marius