From: Wybo Dekker <wybo@...>
Date: 2003-07-26T06:55:58+09:00
Subject: Re: irb --readline

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> In message "irb --readline"
>     on 03/07/25, Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl> writes:
>
> |When I try to have readline support with:
> |
> |irb --readline
> |
> |I get :
> |
> |/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/context.rb:63:in `const_missing':
> |  uninitialized constant IRB::Context::ReadlineInputMethod (NameError)
> |
> |Do I do something wrong?
>
> You've failed to compile readline extension library, which is required
> by "--readline" option.

It's probably stupid, but... how do I do that?
I found a directory ext/readline with a Makefile in it.
But make says there's nothing to do here...

I also tried to uncomment all lines in Setup and Setup.x86 (including
readline) and recompile ruby, but that did not help either.

-- 
Wybo