Missing standard functions

[Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de>]

Ralf Schmelter writes:
 > Hello!
 > 
 > I have encountered a problem while I was writing an extension to Guile.
 > The problem is, that I cannot use certainn functions (load for example)
 > because the interpreter exits with an error ('guile: Unbound variable:
 > load' in this case). This does not happen, if I run guile interactively. I
 > start the interpreter in my program with the gh_enter function and most
 > of the functions (define, let, etc.) work properly. Another problem is,
 > that i can't use functions like cos and sin. I have to use $sin and $cos
 > instead.
 > 
 > Can anybody explain this strange behaviour?

Some important functions get known guile when ice-9 is booted, as they are
defined in ice-9/boot-9.scm.
Unfortunately the later guile snaps fail to boot ice-9 when gh_enter is 
called, thus not initializing those important primitives.
My dirty workaround is to gh_eval_file "/usr/share/guile/1.3a/ice-9/boot-9.scm"
explicitely after gh_enter, but that's probably not what Blandy would suggest.

Klaus Schilling