[Bug-readline] Re: Problems installing readline on OS X

[Peter Michaux]

On 2/12/07, Peter Michaux <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Hopefully this is the right place to ask. If not please redirect me.
>
> I have no problem installing readline 5.1 on my Intel/OS X 10.4
> machine. Unfortunately my boss has a big problem on his PowerPC/OS X
> 10.4 machine and so can't run Ruby or Rails. He has gcc 4.0.1
> installed. Below are the commands I had him run with which that many
> Mac users have had success. The last line says something about
> "ldconfig" which isn't even on OS X 10.4 and if it was I'd probably
> want to know what it does before running it.

Thanks to both who replied to this post. It turns out you both were
right. There was nothing wrong with the readline install. It turns out
I was being feed bad information from 3000 km away as readline was
trying to be installed.

Thanks again,
Peter