From: Daniel Berger <djberge@...>
Date: 2003-04-02T03:24:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting readline support on solaris

Jim Freeze wrote:
> 
> Hi:
> 
> I have readline on my system (sparc 5.8), but I can't seem to get
> it to load after building ruby.
> 
> How can I build just the readline extension and
> test it to see that it works so I don't have to
> rebuild and install all of ruby?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> --
> Jim Freeze

You should be able to cd into the Ruby source, under the 'ext'
directory.  You should see a 'readline' directory.  cd there and do
"ruby extconf.rb", and "make" to see what the problem is (if any).

Also, I don't think readline support comes with 5.8 by default, though
it's included on the companion CD, IIRC.  If you don't see
libreadline.so in /usr/lib, /usr/local/lib, or /opt/sfw/lib, you likely
don't have it.  There's always sunfreeware.com, too.

Regards,

Dan

-- 
a = [74, 117, 115, 116, 32, 65, 110, 111, 116, 104, 101, 114, 32, 82]
a.push(117,98, 121, 32, 72, 97, 99, 107, 101, 114)
puts a.pack("C*")