Re: guile-2.0.0 crash when started on MacOS X 10.6.0

[Michael Ellis]

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Steven Wu <address@hidden> wrote:
> I built guile-2.0.0 from the tarball, and when I started it, it crashed.
>

> Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
> Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at address: 0x0000000001a17070
> 0x00007fff83bec7f0 in strncmp ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x00007fff83bec7f0 in strncmp ()
> #1  0x00000001019e9684 in init_bouncing_parens [inlined] () at 
> /Users/wus/local/src/gnu/guile-2.0.0/guile-readline/readline.c:445
> #2  0x00000001019e9684 in scm_init_readline () at readline.c:575

Steve, this seems to be a readline issue on OS X.  I ran into the same
problem recently and never did get it sorted out.  See this thread for
details.

http://osdir.com/ml/bug-guile-gnu/2011-02/msg00140.html

As noted in the thread, my workaround was to remove readline from my
.guile file and use emacs+paredit+geiser when I need an interactive
session.  That works pretty well, but, still, it would be nice to be
able to invoke guile from a terminal and have readline support.

Cheers,
Mike