From: Mark Hubbart <discord@...>
Date: 2004-05-14T11:41:32+09:00
Subject: Re: readline woes on OS X


On May 13, 2004, at 5:14 PM, Stephen Steiner wrote:

> I'm trying to install Ruby's readline module on OS X and am having the 
> following problem:
>
>
> When I run:
>
> ruby extconf.rb
>
> I get:
>
> checking for tgetnum() in -lncurses... yes
> checking for readline/readline.h... yes
> checking for readline/history.h... yes
> checking for readline() in -lreadline... no
>
> The question is, where are the paths that 'have_library()' is going to 
> search?  It is finding the header files but can't seem to find the 
> library (libreadline.a).

Have you installed a copy of readline on your system? There are two 
possibilities here:
1. make and install a readline library, or
2. if you were lucky enough to have a copy installed with your 
developer tools, link it to your /usr/lib directory.

If a copy was installed, it should be under 
"/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/readline.framework/"; If it's not 
there, you'll probably have to compile a copy.

Since it was installed on mine, I haven't had to compile it. But I hear 
that other people's setups don't have it, so I don't know.

HTH,
--Mark