From: Han Kessels <han.kessels@...>
Date: 2007-12-27T18:30:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Trouble with Readline and Building Ruby 1.9

On Dec 27, 11:57 am, Tadatoshi Takahashi <tadato...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 26, 9:42 pm, Raul Parolari <raulparol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Tadatoshi Takahashi wrote:
> > > After I modified support/shobj-conf for readline following Han's
> > > instruction, the problem still persists.
>
> > There were 2 different corrections to the problem:
> > 1) generate readline in the way indicated by Yudi (..make
> > static-install) above
> > 2) correct the test on the OS version as indicated by Han.
>
> > I am still using MacOsX 10.4.11, and I cannot confirm that the 2 actions
> > fix the problem for Leopard. But they (in my case, just the first alone)
> > allowed me to (finally..) generate ruby 1.9.
>
> > I wrote this just in case you overlooked the first correction.
>
> > And by the way, thanks to Yudi and Han
>
> > Raul
> > --
> > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> Thank you for your reply, Raul.
>
> Actually, just to install readline itself required the first
> correction.
> Then I went on to execute make for Ruby 1.9.
> At that time, I got the same error as James originally posted.
> So I followed Han's instruction.
> But the problem still persisted.
> (I'm using Mac OS X 10.5.1 Leopard.)

Once you succeeded in installing readline in /usr/local, did you point
ruby1.9 at it?
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ruby1.9 --with-readline-dir=/usr/local