From: GregD <gditrick@...>
Date: 2010-10-15T21:08:04+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.9.2 irb and readline problem on ubuntu



On Oct 14, 6:35 pm, G Brandon Hoyt <qrpra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > installed ubuntu's libreadline5-dev.
>
> If you didn't have the libreadline5-dev installed on your system before,
> that is what your problem was.
> See my blog post:http://bit.ly/9SyPuM for other tips about installing
> ruby from source on Ubuntu.  Those instructions also work for 10.10.

Yea, I figured that was it.  But, is seems to me that if rvm can
install the packages libreadline and zlib, then it should reference
those when it configures and compiles ruby.  I thought that is what it
would do and should do and not look for a system one.

BTW: This was a new VM and I did not have this problem on my other VMs
because they obviously had the system's libreadline5-dev package.  I
tried to follow rvm instructions for readline and they did not work.
Then I remembered, I did installed dev libraries like readline's on
those VMs hence going down that path.  I think RVM docs should point
this out or fix the rvm install -C to work with the rvm package
install.