From: Randy Kramer <rhkramer@...>
Date: 2006-03-24T00:43:06+09:00
Subject: Problem resolved: thanks and a followup question (was Re: How to make readline work in IRB?)

On Wednesday 22 March 2006 02:37 pm, Justin Collins wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 March 2006 01:17 pm, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> >> You may need the devel version of the package, so the readline headers
> >> are found when you compile ruby.
> For LE2005 there are a couple packages: libreadline4-devel and
> libreadline5-devel.
> I bet one of those will help you.

Thanks to all who replied!  I found the libreadline5-devel package, installed 
it, then recompiled and reinstalled ruby 1.8.4 and the irb command line is 
working fine.

I learned a few things along the way (like some of the wrong ways to search 
for libreadline on rpmfind (neither a search for readline or readline-devel 
will find libreadline)--not sure what I did wrong in my google 
searches--maybe searched for readline-devel which wasn't found because of the 
number in libreadline5-devel). 

I am curious about why I didn't see a message about something not finding 
readline during the first install--maybe it was buried in the tons of warning 
messages I got about signs not matching (and events).

In the future I'll try to remember to redirect the stderr and stdout to two 
different files, then look at the errors more closely.  

Does anybody here know--should I have seen an error/warning related to the 
missing readline.h headers?  During the ./configure or the make step?

Thanks again!
Randy Kramer