Contents of Readline
Installed libraries: libhistory.so and libreadline.so
Installed directories: /usr/include/readline and
/usr/share/doc/readline-8.3
The Readline package is a set of libraries that offer command-line editing and history capabilities.
Reinstalling Readline will cause the old libraries to be moved to <libraryname>.old. While this is normally not a problem, in some cases it can trigger a linking bug in ldconfig. This can be avoided by issuing the following two seds:
sed -i '/MV.*old/d' Makefile.in
sed -i '/{OLDSUFF}/c:' support/shlib-installPrevent hard coding library search paths (rpath) into the shared libraries. This package does not need rpath for an installation into the standard location, and rpath may sometimes cause unwanted effects or even security issues:
sed -i 's/-Wl,-rpath,[^ ]*//' support/shobj-conf
Prepare Readline for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--disable-static \
--with-curses \
--docdir=/usr/share/doc/readline-8.3The meaning of the new configure option:
--with-cursesThis option tells Readline that it can find the termcap
library functions in the curses library, not a separate
termcap library. This will generate the correct
readline.pc file.
Compile the package:
make SHLIB_LIBS="-lncursesw"
The meaning of the make option:
SHLIB_LIBS="-lncursesw"This option forces Readline to link against the
libncursesw library.
For details see the “Shared Libraries” section in the
package's README file.
This package does not come with a test suite.
Install the package:
make install
If desired, install the documentation:
install -v -m644 doc/*.{ps,pdf,html,dvi} /usr/share/doc/readline-8.3