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

[Corinna Vinschen]

On May 21 09:51, Robert Klemme wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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.

I'll prepare a new package today.


Thanks for the report,
Corinna

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