From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2011-01-07T17:37:10+09:00
Subject: Re: ripl - an irb alternative - 0.3.0 released

On 7 January 2011 03:10, ghorner <gabriel.horner@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 6, 4:19 am, Michal Suchanek <hramr...@centrum.cz> wrote:
>> On 6 January 2011 02:10, ghorner <gabriel.hor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Jan 5, 10:55 am, Michal Suchanek <hramr...@centrum.cz> wrote:
>> >> Hello
>>
>> >> There is a serious issue with ripl.
>>
>> >> $ ripl
>> >> Bond Error: Failed to load readline_line_buffer. Ensure that it exists
>> >> and was built correctly.
>>
>> > For ruby < 1.9.2, you'll need to have readline installed. I'm
>> > surprised your install reported no errors. Can you reinstall?
>>
>> I installed on another machine and do not get the error.
>
> If your install is building the readline_line_buffer extension
> correctly, then the problem must be you can't find it. What does the
> following command give you?
>
>   find $(dirname $(gem which bond)) | grep readline_line_buffer
>
> You should get the path of the extension. Try requiring that path
> after requiring ripl.
>

Apparently bond requires readline development files but does not
report an error when they are not present.

Thanks

Michal