guile-1.7.2-1 AND cygwin-1.5.18-1 (Attn: guile maintainer)

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Pach Roman (GS-EC/ESA4) * wrote:

> I'm trying to force the guile-1.7.2-1 to run under cygwin.
> The packages used are:
> > guile-1.7.2-1.tar.bz2
> > libguile12-1.6.7-1.tar.bz2
> > libguile16-1.7.2-1.tar.bz2
>
> After the guile has been started, the following error message is
> generated:
>
> > guile --debug
> ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
> ERROR: file: "libguilereadline-v-16", message: "No such file or directory"
>
> The file /usr/bin/libguilereadline-v-16.la contains the link
> dlname='../bin/cygguilereadline-v-16-16.dll'
>
> This dll library can't be found in either the bz2 packages.
> It seems, it has not bin built during the guile package generation.
> Am I right?

According to a search on <http://cygwin.com/packages/>, yes, this does
indeed seem to be a packaging error.  The guile maintainer should be
reading this list, so we'll just flag this for his attention...
	Igor
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