Re: guile loses on NetBSD/sparc64 1.6.2 with gcc 3.3.2

[Greg Troxel]

  If I couldn't easily see that you're using libguile-ltdl, I'd have
  thought your libltdl was the problem.  Though it's of course possible
  that we still have some bugs of our own in there.

  Can you find out which dlopen it's failing on?

I built (from pkgsrc) and ran make check.
All worked except

ERROR: srfi-19.test: SRFI date/time library: #<procedure time-utc->date (time . 
tz-offset)> respects local DST if no TZ-OFFSET given - arguments: 
((system-error "putenv" "~A" ("No such file or directory") (2)))

It's all coming back to me from running make check.  The problem was
the readline module.

gdt 39 /usr/pkgsrc/lang/guile > cd
sunpal5 gdt 40 ~ > guile -q
guile> (+ 2 3)
5
guile> (use-modules (ice-9 readline))
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I have in my .guile:

; This file was automatically generated by m4.  DO NOT EDIT.
; Copyright (c) 1996,1997,1998,1999 Gregory D. Troxel.
; All rights reserved.
; Permission is granted to copy individual statements only if the
; the person copying the statement understands its functionality
; and agrees not to complain about their dotfiles at all while
; any code derived from this file is in them.
; This permission notice must be preserved on all copies and derived
; works.
(use-modules (ice-9 readline))
(define (ar)
  (activate-readline)
  )

and had forgotten - I think my alpha woes were at least 3 or 4 years
ago.  I can try to track this down more at some point.
Does readline work on your ia64 and alpha boxes?

-- 
        Greg Troxel <address@hidden>