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

[Steven Wu]

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

steve
On Mar 5, 2011, at 12:52 PM, Michael Ellis wrote:

> 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