On Sun, 2016-10-16 at 23:09 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > > David Sumbler <[email protected]> writes: > > > > > On Sun, 2016-10-16 at 21:19 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > > > > > > > > > David Sumbler <[email protected]> writes: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Further to the above, I find that if I type > > > > > > > > /usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/guile > > > > > > > > then readline works just fine. > > > Guile 2.0 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > But not when guile is invoked with > > > > > > > > lilypond scheme-sandbox > > > Guile 1.8 > > Sorry, this hasn't helped me. > > > > True, if I type 'guile' it runs /usr/bin/guile-2.0, but if I type > > /usr/bin/guile-1.8 readline also works. > That's the system installation of Guile, not the one used in > LilyPond. > > > > > > > Presumably when I type 'lilypond scheme-sandbox' it runs the guile > > at > > /usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/guile, rather than the one in > > /usr/bin/. > LilyPond doesn't run any Guile executable. It just loads the Guile > REPL > and runs it in LilyPond as LilyPond is linked with libguile. I don't quite understand that, but may be it's not important for me to understand.
> > > > > As Lilypond seems to have readline files in > > /usr/local/lilypond/usr/lib/ and > > /usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/guile/1.8/ice-9/ > > I would have expected readline to work. Why are the files there if > > they can't be used? > Probably you don't have the necessary libraries installed. Wrong > architecture? Is your LilyPond a 64bit version? Yes, I'm running the 64-bit version of Lilypond 2.19.40. David _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
