From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2009-08-12T02:48:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Readline not working with Ruby

Stewart wrote:
> /usr/local/src/ruby-1.8.7-p72/ext/readline $ make
> make: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> /usr/local/src/ruby-1.8.7-p72/ext/readline $ make install
> make: Nothing to be done for `install'.
> /usr/local/src/ruby-1.8.7-p72/ext/readline $ ls
> Makefile	README		README.ja	depend		extconf.rb	readline.bundle
> readline.c	readline.o
> /usr/local/src/ruby-1.8.7-p72/ext/readline $
> 
> Did not do anything  Does not seem anything was made.

Just to be sure, you might want to try (in the same dir):

make distclean (should delete the makefile)
ruby extconf.rb (should regenerate the makefile, and find the readline libs)
make
make install

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