Ruby 1.8.4 Mac OS X readline problems

agnathan · December 24, 2005, 7:00pm

Is anyone else having this problem?

#++++++
$ make test-all
./miniruby ./runruby.rb --extout=.ext – -C “./test” runner.rb –
runner=console
dyld: NSLinkModule() error
dyld: Symbol not found: _rl_filename_completion_function
Referenced from: /Users/dharple/ruby-1.8.4/.ext/powerpc-
darwin8.3.0/readline.bundle
Expected in: flat namespace

make: *** [test-all] Trace/BPT trap
$
#++++++

My scripts run fine, but now I can’t use readline in IRB (or anywhere).

Mac OS X 10.4.3
gcc version 4.0.0 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5026)

Compiling on Mac OS X 10.3.9 with gcc version 3.3 20030304 (Apple
Computer, Inc. build 1666) I get a borked DRB test that exits with an
error and no subsequent tests are run.

– Daniel

agnathan · December 25, 2005, 5:55am

On Dec 24, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Daniel H. wrote:

Expected in: flat namespace

Compiling on Mac OS X 10.3.9 with gcc version 3.3 20030304 (Apple
Computer, Inc. build 1666) I get a borked DRB test that exits with
an error and no subsequent tests are run.

– Daniel

My advice is to wait until the 1.8.4 package is available from Darwin
Ports or Fink. I highly encourage everyone to use one (or both) of
these tools for managing 99.9% of the *nix software on OS X.

http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/
http://fink.sourceforge.net/

~ ryan ~

agnathan · December 25, 2005, 5:30pm

On 12/24/05, J. Ryan S. [email protected] wrote:

On Dec 24, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Daniel H. wrote:

Is anyone else having this problem?

Yes, I am. I don’t want to install Fink or Darwin ports. I got
readline working with 1.8.2, and am now struggling to get it to work
with 1.8.4. readline.bundle is in ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.3.0.

I used “./configure --with-readline --enable-shared” to configure
Ruby, then make, then make install. When I tried running “rake test”
on a random Rails 1.0 project, the unit tests fail with

/usr/local/bin/ruby -Ilib:test
“/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.6.2/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb”
“test/unit/bookmark_test.rb” “test/unit/group_test.rb”
“test/unit/inbox_test.rb” “test/unit/user_test.rb”
dyld: NSLinkModule() error
dyld: Symbol not found: _rl_filename_completion_function
Referenced from:
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.3.0/readline.bundle
Expected in: flat namespace

rake aborted!
Command failed with status (): [/usr/local/bin/ruby -Ilib:test
"/usr/local…]

Jim

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agnathan · December 26, 2005, 12:09pm

On 12/25/05, Jim M. [email protected] wrote:

I used “./configure --with-readline --enable-shared” to configure
Expected in: flat namespace

rake aborted!
Command failed with status (): [/usr/local/bin/ruby -Ilib:test "/usr/local…]

Hello

Your extension was not properly linked when ruby was built. If you did
the ruby tests it would probably reveal that. Since ruby does link
with -undefined suppress it happily builds and installs extensions
that do not work.
You can find the LDFLAGS change among the fink patches for ruby. I do
not know why ruby does this. I tried to post the patch here or to some
bugtracking system but I never noticed any explanation coming my way
nor was the patch applied.

Thanks

Michal

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agnathan · December 27, 2005, 12:12am

On 12/26/05, Michal S. [email protected] wrote:

Your extension was not properly linked when ruby was built. If you did
the ruby tests it would probably reveal that. Since ruby does link
with -undefined suppress it happily builds and installs extensions
that do not work.
You can find the LDFLAGS change among the fink patches for ruby. I do
not know why ruby does this. I tried to post the patch here or to some
bugtracking system but I never noticed any explanation coming my way
nor was the patch applied.

Have you offered this patch on the ruby-core mailing list?

agnathan · December 27, 2005, 3:15pm

Here’s how I fixed this problem: after installing Ruby 1.8.4, I edited
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.3.0/rbconfig.rb and added
“-lreadline” to the end of CONFIG[“LIBS”].

Jim

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while
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agnathan · December 27, 2005, 5:02pm

On 12/27/05, Gregory B. [email protected] wrote:

Have you offered this patch on the ruby-core mailing list?

No, I am not subscribed to ruby-core.

Aside my attempts to use ruby on exotic platforms now and then I am
not doing anything to the interpreter

Thanks

Michal

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agnathan · December 27, 2005, 8:24pm

On 12/24/05, Daniel H. [email protected] wrote:

Expected in: flat namespace

make: *** [test-all] Trace/BPT trap

I had this same problem. I rebuilt my readline library ala:

wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.1.tar.gz
tar -xzf readline-5.1.tar.gz
cd readline-5.1
./configure --prefix=/usr/local && make && sudo make install

And then rebuilt ruby:

make distclean && configure --with-readline-dir=/usr/local && make
&& make test-all

And all was well.

-Paul

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agnathan · April 7, 2006, 2:28pm

Paul S. wrote:

wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.1.tar.gz
tar -xzf readline-5.1.tar.gz
cd readline-5.1
./configure --prefix=/usr/local && make && sudo make install

And then rebuilt ruby:

make distclean && configure --with-readline-dir=/usr/local && make
&& make test-all

And all was well.

I did this (though I couldn’t get make distclean to run). And the test
still show an issue with WEBrick:

Failure:
test_cgi(TestWEBrickCGI)
[./webrick/test_cgi.rb:27:in test_cgi' /Users/jimmyether/src/ruby-1.8.4/lib/net/http.rb:1049:inrequest’
/Users/jimmyether/src/ruby-1.8.4/lib/net/http.rb:2104:in
reading_body' /Users/jimmyether/src/ruby-1.8.4/lib/net/http.rb:1048:inrequest’
/Users/jimmyether/src/ruby-1.8.4/lib/net/http.rb:1033:in request' /Users/jimmyether/src/ruby-1.8.4/lib/net/http.rb:545:instart’
/Users/jimmyether/src/ruby-1.8.4/lib/net/http.rb:1031:in request' ./webrick/test_cgi.rb:27:intest_cgi’
./webrick/utils.rb:26:in start_server' ./webrick/utils.rb:34:instart_httpserver’
./webrick/test_cgi.rb:24:in `test_cgi’]:
<"/webrick.cgi"> expected but was
<"\n\n

Internal Server Error\n \n

Internal Server Error

\n Premature end of script headers: /Users/jimmyether/src/ruby-1.8.4/test/webrick/webrick.cgi\n

\n \n WEBrick/1.3.1 (Ruby/1.8.4/2005-12-24) OpenSSL/0.9.7i at\n 127.0.0.1:49746\n \n \n\n">.

1313 tests, 14444 assertions, 1 failures, 0 errors
make: *** [test-all] Error 1

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

agnathan · January 25, 2006, 8:03am

Expected in: flat namespace

make: *** [test-all] Trace/BPT trap

make distclean && configure --with-readline-dir=/usr/local && make && make test-all

And all was well.

-Paul

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This also solved the problem for me. Thanks for posting this Paul (:

I had to use curl though, as wget wasn’t installed:

curl -O ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.1.tar.gz
tar -xzf readline-5.1.tar.gz
cd readline-5.1
./configure --prefix=/usr/local && make && sudo make install

agnathan · July 15, 2007, 4:01am

I am having this problem with Ruby 1.8.6 and OSX 10.4.10.

I followed the fix instructions using curl:
curl -O ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.1.tar.gz
tar -xzf readline-5.1.tar.gz
cd readline-5.1
./configure --prefix=/usr/local && make && sudo make install

Can you explain how to rebuild Ruby with make distclean && configure
–with-readline-dir=/usr/local && make && make test-all?

I tried pasting in the line after the ./configure was done, but I had no
success with the fix.
Did you resolve this problem??

jimmyether wrote:

Paul S. wrote:

wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.1.tar.gz
tar -xzf readline-5.1.tar.gz
cd readline-5.1
./configure --prefix=/usr/local && make && sudo make install

And then rebuilt ruby:

make distclean && configure --with-readline-dir=/usr/local && make
&& make test-all

And all was well.

I did this (though I couldn’t get make distclean to run). And the test
still show an issue with WEBrick:

Failure:
test_cgi(TestWEBrickCGI)
[./webrick/test_cgi.rb:27:in test_cgi' /Users/jimmyether/src/ruby-1.8.4/lib/net/http.rb:1049:inrequest’
/Users/jimmyether/src/ruby-1.8.4/lib/net/http.rb:2104:in
reading_body' /Users/jimmyether/src/ruby-1.8.4/lib/net/http.rb:1048:inrequest’
/Users/jimmyether/src/ruby-1.8.4/lib/net/http.rb:1033:in request' /Users/jimmyether/src/ruby-1.8.4/lib/net/http.rb:545:instart’
/Users/jimmyether/src/ruby-1.8.4/lib/net/http.rb:1031:in request' ./webrick/test_cgi.rb:27:intest_cgi’
./webrick/utils.rb:26:in start_server' ./webrick/utils.rb:34:instart_httpserver’
./webrick/test_cgi.rb:24:in `test_cgi’]:
<"/webrick.cgi"> expected but was
<"\n\n

Internal Server Error\n \n
Internal Server Error
\n Premature end of script headers: /Users/jimmyether/src/ruby-1.8.4/test/webrick/webrick.cgi\n
\n \n WEBrick/1.3.1 (Ruby/1.8.4/2005-12-24) OpenSSL/0.9.7i at\n 127.0.0.1:49746\n \n \n\n">.
1313 tests, 14444 assertions, 1 failures, 0 errors
make: *** [test-all] Error 1

Any suggestions on how to fix this?