From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" Date: 2010-10-15T02:21:08+09:00 Subject: Re: 1.9.2 irb and readline problem on ubuntu On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 7:16 PM, GregD wrote: > > > On Oct 14, 11:36 am, GregD wrote: >> All, >> >> Does anyone have an issue with 1.9.2 irb and readline where the arrow >> buttons and tab don't work? >> >> I have tried many things and even remove readline6 from the picture >> still does not work. >> >> I've done this during the install: >> >> rvm package install zlib >> rvm package install readline >> rvm install 1.9.2 -C --with-zlib-dir=/usr/local/rvm/usr --with- >> readline-dir=/usr/local/rvm/usr >> >> It looks like it is not compiling with readline.  Any help, please? >> >> Thanks, >> >> GregD > > Well, I got it to work.  But, not 100% sure what did it. > > I did these: > > installed ubuntu's libreadline5-dev. > ran ruby extconf.rb in the 1.9.2-src.../ext/readline dir > ran the ./confuration.sh | tee temp.log multiple times looking in > temp.log for any readline info never found it. > installed ubuntu's ncurses-dev > ran ruby extconf.rb again and it recognized the system's readline, > ncurses, etc > did a make there > did another rvm install 1.9.2 > > once it was installed, readline stuff worked for 1.9.2 irb. > > I'm going to ping the rvm users group to see if anyone knows this and > if an issue has been submitted. Let us know how it goes, cause exactly the same thing happened to me, but as I'm not using 1.9.2 for anything I don't want to mess too much, and would prefer to wait for a clean solution. Jesus.