From: Ben Bleything <ben@...>
Date: 2010-02-02T13:27:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Is readline really broken in MacOS Snow Leopard!?!?!

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:15 PM, TomTom III <b3082088@uggsrock.com> wrote:
> It seems that readline (and hence gets) is broken in Ruby 1.8.7, on Mac
> OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). According to the article here:
> http://blog.angelbob.com/posts/39-Compiling-Ruby-1-8-7-on-a-PowerBook-G4-with-Mac-OS-X-1-4---published-ruby,
> it says "Newer versions of the readline library prepend an "rl_" in
> front of function names".

Uh, Snow Leopard is 10.6.  That article is about 10.4.  Snow Leopard
ships with 1.8.7 built-in with a working Readline... note that it may
not actually use readline internally, but it is functionally
equivalent.

Bottom line: shouldn't need to do anything.

Ben