Re: is guile thought to work on Mac OS X???

[Neil Jerram]

2009/1/10 Greg Troxel <address@hidden>:
> I am the maintainer of the guile package in pkgsrc.
>
> I have a Mac OS X 10.5.6 (i386) machine, and I have built and installed
> guile 1.8.6 from pkgsrc.  guile itself runs ok, but when I do
>
> (use-modules (ice-9 readline))
>
> I get a complaint about not being able to open libguilereadline-v-17.so
> which is not too surprising as it is
> /usr/pkg/lib/libguilereadline-v-17.dylib instead, thanks to the wonder
> of apple being not quite normal.
>
> So I wonder
>
>  does anyone run guile on a mac?  If so, does readline work?

We did several fixes for versions of MacOS X in the first half of last
year, and my impression following those was that guile was then
working.  But I haven't tried it myself.

>  is load-extension expected to deal with this, and perhaps the problem
>  is a stray .so in a call that shouldn't be there?

I would guess that it is libltdl's job to know that the correct suffix
on MacOS is .dylib.

> I'll take a look and see what I find.
>

I hope we'll get some more replies from people who use MacOS more!

Regards,
      Neil