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When you report a bug, please provide the following information; 

- output of
	perl -V
	perl Makefile.PL verbose
	make test TEST_VERBOSE=1
	perl -Mblib t/00checkver.t
	echo $TERM
- terminal emulator which you are using
- compiler which is used to compile the GNU Readline Library (libreadline.a) if you can know.
Read INSTALL in the distribution for more details.

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The Basics
Id: 104486
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: Term-ReadLine-Gnu
People
Owner: HAYASHI [...] cpan.org
Requestors: hartzell [...] alerce.com
Cc:
AdminCc:
Bug Information
Severity: Important
Broken in: 1.26
Fixed in: 1.27

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  Sun May 17 11:00:05 2015 hartzell [...] alerce.com - Ticket created
Subject: Add Mac OS X/homebrew info to INSTALL
A recent ticket patched Makefile.PL to use readline installed via homebrew on the mac. The attached patch adds some info to the INSTALL doc about it.
Subject: INSTALL.txt.patch
--- INSTALL.txt.ORIG 2015-05-17 07:30:24.000000000 -0700 +++ INSTALL.txt 2015-05-17 07:54:16.000000000 -0700 @@ -100,7 +100,35 @@ 3. make and install % make install -2.1.1. Install on Mac OS X +2.1.1. Install on Mac OS X with homebrew + + 1. Install [homebrew](http://brew.sh/) + + 2. Use homebrew to install the GNU Readline Library: + `brew install readline` + + * Because the GNU Readline library conflicts with the the + similarly-named-but-different library installed in the base OS, + homebrew does not link readline into /usr/local (it is + "keg-only"). + + * Makefile.PL uses `brew prefix readline` to find and use the "keg" + directory so things work seamlessly. + + 3. Build Term::ReadLine::Gnu as described above: + `perl Makefile.PL` + `make` + `make test` + `make install` + + * `brew cleanup` will not remove keg-only formula, to avoid breaking + things that have been linked against it. However, if you force + it, `brew cleanup --force`, then it will remove the keg-only + formula and Term::ReadLine::Gnu will cease to work. You'll need + to rebuild Term::ReadLine::GNU so that it links against + whichever newer version you have installed. + +2.1.2. Install on Mac OS X manually /usr/bin/perl on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and later supports 32bit/64bit universal binary. Make Makefile as follows;
  Sat May 23 04:04:01 2015 HAYASHI [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Hi, Thank you for your patch. I've checked it in the SVN repository. I changed indentation and etc. It will be included in the next release.
  Sat May 23 04:04:01 2015 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Sat May 23 04:04:07 2015 HAYASHI [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'patched'
  Sat May 23 04:04:07 2015 HAYASHI [...] cpan.org - Taken
  Sun Sep 06 05:26:24 2015 HAYASHI [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
The fix is in 1.27.
  Sun Sep 06 05:26:26 2015 HAYASHI [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'patched' to 'resolved'
  Sun Sep 06 05:26:31 2015 HAYASHI [...] cpan.org - Fixed in 1.27 added