# Re: Is it a ruby bug?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-is-it-a-ruby-bug/114487>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 13, 2007, 7:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-is-it-a-ruby-bug/114487 "2007-09-13T07:55:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![2tcreative](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/2/a3d4f5/32.png) [@2tcreative](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/2tcreative)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 7:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-is-it-a-ruby-bug/114487/1 "2007-09-13T07:55:07Z")

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First , a lot thanks to Phil [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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I did it as [http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/ReadlineLibrary](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/ReadlineLibrary) but  
still failed.

Any ideas ?

Regards.  
Tim

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**Author:** ![2tcreative](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/2/a3d4f5/32.png) [@2tcreative](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/2tcreative)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 9:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-is-it-a-ruby-bug/114487/2 "2007-09-13T09:09:14Z")

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It seems I got the key , thanks for all you guys.

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**Author:** ![2tcreative](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/2/a3d4f5/32.png) [@2tcreative](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/2tcreative)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 8:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-is-it-a-ruby-bug/114487/3 "2007-09-13T08:27:09Z")

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On 13 Sep 2007, at 14:54, Tim.Teng wrote:

> > linux-tim:/home/tim/develop\_software/ruby-1.8.6-p36/ext/readline #  
> > ruby extconf.rb  
> > checking for tgetnum() in -lncurses… yes  
> > checking for readline/readline.h… no  
> > checking for editline/readline.h… no

It couldn’t find the readline header files, so you need to make sure  
you have these installed. I don’t know how Suse does package  
management but I would have thought there should be a readline  
package for installing somewhere.

Alex G.

Bioinformatics Center  
Kyoto University