Readline and pkg-config in ubuntu
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I have been busy trying to learn Chicken scheme recently. The issue is that by default the REPL is a bit barebone. You are supposed to “augment” it by injecting a library of your choosing, like readline.
The documentation for the project is quite good, even if a recent transition to a new major version has left some part of it out-of-date.
I tried to install breadline, which provides bindings to the readline library, but the build process failed because pkg-config cannot provide the compiler flags for readline: