comp.lang.ruby

Jonathan Métillon

11/11/2006 10:47:00 AM

At last, thanks to this message I have been able to make the extension
directly from /usr/src/ruby-1.8.5/ext/readline

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On 11/11/06, Jonathan Métillon <jmetillon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to compile Ruby 1.8.5 on Debian Sarge with readline. After
> compilation I try irb and I get:
>
> irb(main):001:0> require "readline"
> LoadError: no such file to load -- readline
> from (irb):1:in `require'
> from (irb):1
>
> Also I have these readline related packages installed:
>
> $ dpkg -l | grep ^ii | grep readline
> ii libreadline-ruby 1.8.2-1 Readline interface for Ruby
> ii libreadline-ruby1.6 1.6.8-12sarge2 Readline interface for Ruby 1.6x
> ii libreadline-ruby1.8 1.8.5-3 Readline interface for Ruby 1.8
> ii libreadline4 4.3-11 GNU readline and history
> libraries, run-time libraries
> ii libreadline5 5.2-1 GNU readline and history
> libraries, run-time libraries
> ii libreadline5-dev 5.2-1 GNU readline and history
> libraries, development files
> ii readline-common 5.2-1 GNU readline and history
> libraries, common files
>
> Why ruby does not compile with readline? Thank you!
>
> Jonathan
>