I recently built Guile Scheme from source starting with code from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-3.0.11.tar.gz, and the instructions at
https://codeberg.org/guile/guile and
http://doc.guix.gnu.org/guile/latest/en/html_node/Obtaining-and-Installing-Guile.html.
The latest version of the manual mentions a module `(ice-9 readline)`
that lets the Guile repl use the GNU readline library for convenience,
but when attempting to run `(use-modules (ice-9 readline))` I get an
error saying there is no code for the module. Indeed, it doesn't appear
to come with the copy of the source that I have, and looking at the source at
codeberg.org, I don't see an ice-9/readline.scm. I think either I was
supposed to build differently, or it is missing from the source, or the
reference manual shouldn't assert that new users have access to the
module, but I'm not sure which of these are the case.

(I understand that the expected way for me to install Guile is via my 
distribution's
package manager, but the Guile 3.0 that fedora offers comes missing some
pieces, most obviously the Guile reference manual. That's why I decided to 
build from source instead.)

Thank you for your time

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