Thanks, I'll give it a try. steve On Mar 5, 2011, at 12:52 PM, Michael Ellis wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Steven Wu <[email protected]> wrote: >> I built guile-2.0.0 from the tarball, and when I started it, it crashed. >> > >> Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory. >> Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at address: 0x0000000001a17070 >> 0x00007fff83bec7f0 in strncmp () >> (gdb) bt >> #0 0x00007fff83bec7f0 in strncmp () >> #1 0x00000001019e9684 in init_bouncing_parens [inlined] () at >> /Users/wus/local/src/gnu/guile-2.0.0/guile-readline/readline.c:445 >> #2 0x00000001019e9684 in scm_init_readline () at readline.c:575 > > Steve, this seems to be a readline issue on OS X. I ran into the same > problem recently and never did get it sorted out. See this thread for > details. > > http://osdir.com/ml/bug-guile-gnu/2011-02/msg00140.html > > As noted in the thread, my workaround was to remove readline from my > .guile file and use emacs+paredit+geiser when I need an interactive > session. That works pretty well, but, still, it would be nice to be > able to invoke guile from a terminal and have readline support. > > Cheers, > Mike
