From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2005-02-07T19:17:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Readline doesn't work no matter what I do

* Hee-Seng Kye <katsura@msbx.net> [0236 09:36]:
> > Have you tried starting irb as "irb --readline" ?
> > 
> > Or, inside irb, enter "require 'irb/completion' "
> > I seem to recollect something similar working for me on Windows some time ago.
> > 
> > HTH
> > CT
> > 
> 
> Thanks for replying!!!  Yes, I've tried both methods, and still with no
> luck.  It's not big a deal but still frustrating.
> 
> Anyone in this list working on Mac OS x and having a similar problem?  I've
> tried everything I can, but it's not going anywhere...

I had this trouble on netbsd2.
Did you build the ruby readline extension when you built the source?

(does

 ruby -rreadline -e '1'

give an error?)

If so you might need to go into 

ext/readline

under your ruby source directory and try :

ruby extconf.rb
make/make install


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