From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2005-04-03T05:41:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way to get latest ruby on OS X?

Quoting jaco@neottia.net, on Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 05:24:44AM +0900:
> Sam Roberts <sroberts@uniserve.com> writes:
> 
> 
> > Before I reinstall, by "works fine", you mean the arrow keys allow you
> > to go through the history?
> 
> On a pristine install of last port (1.8.2_2), arrows keys doesn't work
> on my box, too.
> 
> Ollivier Robert gives me a workaround:
> 
> After install, do a "make -f build ruby", then goes to
> work/ruby*/readline directory, do a "ruby extconf.rb", then "make;make
> install". 

Yeah! That worked for me.

Mostly. "make -f build ruby" seems like a typo. But manually building
the extension was fine.

> This solution has solved the readline problem on my box : now, arrow
> keys work with /opt/local/bin/irb.
> 
> I'm in touch with the port maintainer to find a more elegant solution.

I'll try and post this to ruby-core, I think there is something wrong
with the ruby build system if you can build the single extension it
works, but if you build ruby the extension doesn't get built.

Sam