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Re: ruby-1.8.6-p114-1: IRB cannot use readline any more


2008/5/21 Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>:
> On May 21 09:51, Robert Klemme wrote:
>> after upgrading to this new version of Ruby readline does not seem to
>> work in IRB any more.  I tried using parameter --readline as well as
>> various combinations of packages readline, libreadline5 and
>> libreadline6 but to no avail.  Switching back to the previous version
>> (ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-cygwin]) solves the issue.
>
> My fault.  I moved my 1.5 build environment to another machine and
> missed to install the readline devel package.  The result is that
> readline support is entirely missing in ruby.

Ah, I suspected some build (flag) issue. Thanks for confirming!

> I'll prepare a new package today.
>
> Thanks for the report,

Thank *you* for the quick reaction!

Kind regards

robert

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