From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-10-08T10:06:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22216] Re: segfault on RedHat 6.2

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:22204] segfault on RedHat 6.2"
    on 01/10/08, "Brian Zhou" <brian_zhou@NOSPAMtechie.com> writes:

|[bzhou@host62 ruby]$ RUBYLIB=lib ./ruby sample/irb.rb
|irb(main):001:0>
|irb(main):002:0* ^C
|irb(main):002:0>
|irb(main):003:0*
|irb(main):004:0* Segmentation fault (core dumped)    <== pressed ^C here

Hmm, I couldn't reproduce it here.

|BTW, on another RedHat 7.1 box, I could not reproduce the segfault. However,
|as a separate issue: readline does not seem to work:

What's the situation of "not work"?

|[bzhou@host71 ruby]$ RUBYLIB=lib ./ruby ext/readline/extconf.rb
|checking for tgetnum() in -lncurses... yes
|checking for readline/readline.h... yes
|checking for readline/history.h... yes
|checking for readline() in -lreadline... yes
|checking for rl_filename_completion_function()... no
|checking for rl_cleanup_after_signal()... yes
|creating Makefile

This means you have older libreadline, but it should compile.

							matz.