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8th
Wed
8th
Rebuild ruby readline due to Leopard Software update
Due to the recent Leopard ruby update, accents and other non ascii characters are never more available for irb. This is how to proceed to fix that:
$ locate libreadline
/usr/lib/libreadline.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.5.2.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.5.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.a
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.dylib
$ ruby --version
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [universal-darwin9.0]
svn co http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_6_287/ext/readline/ readline
curl http://pastie.textmate.org/pastes/168767/download | patch readline/extconf.rb
cd readline
ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" ruby extconf.rb
make
sudo make install