My 2 cents: I found I needed the developers versions of these for a complete successful ruby make (zlib-devel not zlib). installing rubygems required zlib-devel but I actually used ruby for a couple of weeks without realizing that readline had failed to make. My default linux (suse, 10.0) did not have the developers versions installed. In particular, check if your system has readline.h. If it doesn''t, you don''t have the developers readline installed. Hope this helps someone! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---