From: Jim Freeze <jfreeze@...>
Date: 2002-07-22T08:59:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Install troubles

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 08:21:01AM +0900, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> On 7/21/02 12:13 PM, "Jim Freeze" <jfreeze@freebsdportal.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi:
> > 
> > I have installed ruby on maxosx, but am having trouble with
> > getting irb to run.
> > 
> > I used fink at first, but irb would not run. I then uninstalled
> > ruby and installed 1.6.7 manually with the following commands:
> > 
> > ./configure --prefix=/sw --with-sitedir=/sw/lib/ruby/site_ruby
> > 
> > When I run irb I get the following error:
> > % irb 
> > /sw/lib/ruby/1.6/irb/completion.rb:10:in `require': No such file to load --
> > readline (LoadError)
> >       from /sw/lib/ruby/1.6/irb/completion.rb:10
> >       from /sw/lib/ruby/1.6/irb/init.rb:197:in `require'
> >       from /sw/lib/ruby/1.6/irb/init.rb:197:in `load_modules'
> >       from /sw/lib/ruby/1.6/irb/init.rb:195:in `each'
> >       from /sw/lib/ruby/1.6/irb/init.rb:195:in `load_modules'
> >       from /sw/lib/ruby/1.6/irb.rb:52:in `start'
> >       from /sw/bin/irb:13
> > 
> > 
> > It appears that readline is not installed:
> > 
> > % find /sw/lib -name readline\*
> > --returns nothing
> 
> Jim, I don't know why Fink didn't put readline where Fink is looking for it
> but you should already have readline installed in:
> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/readline.framework/readline
> 
> So the question is "Why isn't require finding the readline that's already
> installed in OSX?" Or maybe a better version is "How come Chris's version of
> irb finds readline down in /System/Library/... while Jim's does not." None
> of the Frameworks actually show up in my $: path.
> 
> Well I don't have a definitive answer but I suspect that it's because I
> built ruby with --enable-shared as Fujimoto Hisakuni suggested. I went down
> the path with someone else on this list who didn't have ncurses and that
> turned out to be the difference.
> 
> Please see if using -enable-shared works for you. If it doesn't, post again
> and we'll work through it.
> 
> >From memory though, --enable-shared forces the static linker, ld, to build a
> version of ruby that gives the dynamic linker, dyld, a chance to satisfy
> externals at runtime.
> -- 

I did the following:

make distclean
rm config.cache
./configure --enable-shared --prefix=/sw --with-sitedir=/sw/lib/ruby/site_ruby
make
sudo make install

Running irb produces the same error as above.

BTW, it appears that realine is installed at /System/Library/Private.framework/...
(Man what a convoluted path)


-- 
Jim Freeze
If only I had something clever to say for my comment...
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