From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2009-08-12T00:57:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Readline not working with Ruby

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Thomas Preymesser<thopre@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/11 Stewart <stewart.matheson@gmail.com>
>
>>
>> Hey I compiled ruby with readline support. However when i go to IRB i
>> just get jibbrish when i press the up arrow on my keyboard.  Any
>> suggestions?
>>
>>
> i had the same problem. going to the ext/readline directory and 'make' and
> 'make install' solved the problem for me.
>
And I recompiled everything after having installed libreadline5-dev.
Well I guess this is safer and that is what make is for after all.
Brian: I would only rerun ./configure if really necessary because that
recompiles everything, but that at least is the bullet proof method
;).
Cheers
Robert
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-- 
module Kernel
  alias_method :λ, :lambda
end