bug#81466: missing ice-9 module 'readline'

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Augustine Benjamin via "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension L=
anguage" <[email protected]> writes:

> 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-Installin=
g-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 sourc=
e 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

See https://codeberg.org/guile/guile/src/branch/main/guile-readline

> 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 dis=
tribution'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=20
> to build from source instead.)
>
> Thank you for your time
>
> Sent with Proton Mail secure email.=20

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