From: Jose Marques <noway@...>
Date: 2005-04-22T00:19:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing RubyGems as non-root user on MacOS X

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Zach Dennis wrote:

> Yeah, I can't get readline support to work in irb on my Mac either. If
> anyone knows please let us know....

This may not be the best way but I used the following script to build my 
private copy of ruby _with_ readline support.  Looking at the log file in 
the readline ext directory it seems it wasn't picking up my LDFLAGS 
settings.  The readline library was already installed in /opt/local using 
DarwinPorts.

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#!/bin/sh

PREFIX=${HOME}/tools
export PREFIX

LDFLAGS="-L${PREFIX}/lib -L/opt/local/lib"
export LDFLAGS
# For readline support
DLDFLAGS=${LDFLAGS}
export DLDFLAGS

CFLAGS="-I${PREFIX}/include -I/opt/local/include"
export CFLAGS

VERSION=1.8.2

cd ruby-${VERSION}
../configure --prefix=${PREFIX}
make
make install

-- 
Jose Marques