bug#52218: Unable to define more than one R7RS library per file

Sam Lee via "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.guile.bugs
Message-ID <20211201074553.bzuoffwpaxw3da44@localhost>
Guile is unable to handle more than one define-library per file. For
example, this is "mylibs.sld", which contains two define-library:

(define-library (example mylib)
  (import (scheme base))
  (export f)
  (begin
    (define (f x)
      (+ x 1))))

(define-library (example main)
  (import (scheme base)
          (scheme write)
          (example mylib))
  (export main)
  (begin
    (define (main)
      (display "The answer is: ")
      (display (f 1))
      (newline))))


When loading this file into Guile using "guile -l mylibs.sld", or by
using (load "mylibs.sld"), Guile will show this error:

;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
;;;       or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable.
;;; compiling /home/user/mylibs.sld
;;; WARNING: compilation of /home/user/mylibs.sld failed:
;;; Syntax error:
;;; unknown location: definition in expression context, where definitions are not allowed, in form (define (main) (display "The answer is: ") (display (f 1)) (newline))
ice-9/psyntax.scm:2794:12: In procedure syntax-violation:
Syntax error:
/home/user/mylibs.sld:14:4: definition in expression context, where definitions are not allowed, in form (define (main) (display "The answer is: ") (display (f 1)) (newline))


The error is always caused by the second define-library. Apparently,
Guile no longer understands that define-library is a special form by the
time the second define-library is evaluated. Is it not possible to
define two R7RS libraries in the same file?

Guile version: 3.0.7
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