>>>>> "G" == Garriss, Michael <Michael.Garriss / abacus-direct.com> writes:

G> I'm also having trouble getting irb to work on Solaris.  My problem appears
G> with irb --readline.  I've cleaned everything out and I'm now going to
G> rebuild everything with the latest snapshots of source.  I'll let you know
G> how it goes.

 I've no problem

nasun% uname -a
SunOS nasun 5.8 Generic_108528-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R
nasun% 

nasun% gcc -v
Reading specs from /opt/gcc/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.2/specs
Configured with: ../gcc-3.2/configure --prefix=/opt/gcc
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2
nasun% 

nasun% ruby -v
ruby 1.7.3 (2002-12-04) [sparc-solaris2.8]
nasun% 

nasun% irb --readline
irb(main):001:0> 1+1
=> 2
irb(main):002:0> 1+1
=> 2
irb(main):003:0> nasun% 
nasun% 



Guy Decoux