Maxim Cournoyer writes: > Hi, > > Today I tried investigating if was possible to build Guile so that even > its extension modules could be built in statically rather than > dynamically loaded. I didn't succeed; even when building Guile the way > its described by the %guile-static package in Guix (see (gnu packages > make-bootstrap)), I would still get the following message when attemting > activation of readline: > > scheme@(guile-user)> (use-modules (ice-9 readline)) > While compiling expression: > ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link: file: "libguilereadline-v-18", message: > "file not found" > > Interestingly a static library for readline seems to have been built: > > /gnu/store/xxi8scxxx8g6i9h0lm57i5kc3xwcgj5r-guile-static-2.0.14/lib/libguilereadline-v-18.a > > One use case would be to have readline support for a statically linked > Guile such as used for the GuixSD init ram disk; I'm currently attemting > to troubleshoot a problem at the init prompt (Guile) and it would be > great to have line editing support there! > > Maxim
As an aside, you may want to look at 6.3 on Ian's update here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2017-08/msg00070.html Maybe there can be some alignment on this work?
