# Ruby not seeing readline on sparc64-sun-solaris2.8

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 30, 2006, 10:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-not-seeing-readline-on-sparc64-sun-solaris2-8/99056 "2006-01-30T22:11:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 10:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-not-seeing-readline-on-sparc64-sun-solaris2-8/99056/1 "2006-01-30T22:11:23Z")

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Hi

I can’t seem to get ruby 1.8.4 to see lib readline. I have compiled  
readline in  
directory X.

% cd X  
% ls include/readline/  
chardefs.h history.h keymaps.h readline.h rlconf.h rlstdc.h  
rltypedefs.h tilde.h  
% ls lib/  
libhistory.a libhistory.so libhistory.so.5 libreadline.a  
libreadline.so libreadline.so.5

I have set CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to X/include and X/lib, but  
the extension  
just doesn’t see the files. I have even added these directories to  
extconf.rb and  
still not luck.

Any ideas?