From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2003-04-02T03:35:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting readline support on solaris

On Wednesday,  2 April 2003 at  3:24:04 +0900, Daniel Berger wrote:
> 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).
> 

Well duh, don't I feel stupid.
I was assuming that when 'false' was returned by:

  require 'readline'

that it was not loading. But it was loaded.


Thanks
-- 
Jim Freeze
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