From: Alex Gutteridge <alexg@...>
Date: 2007-09-13T15:25:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Is it a ruby bug?

On 13 Sep 2007, at 14:54, Tim.Teng wrote:

> First , a lot thanks to Phil <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com>
>>
> I did it as http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/ReadlineLibrary  
> but
> still failed.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Regards.
>                                                   Tim
>
>
>> linux-tim:/home/tim/develop_software/ruby-1.8.6-p36/ext/readline #  
>> ruby extconf.rb
>> checking for tgetnum() in -lncurses... yes
>> checking for readline/readline.h... no
>> checking for editline/readline.h... no

It couldn't find the readline header files, so you need to make sure  
you have these installed. I don't know how Suse does package  
management but I would have thought there should be a readline  
package for installing somewhere.

Alex Gutteridge

Bioinformatics Center
Kyoto University