source: BOOK/final-system/common/readline.xml@ 3aeeba02

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Last change on this file since 3aeeba02 was 37a0da5, checked in by Joe Ciccone <jciccone@…>, 16 years ago

Update the titles for udev on multilib. Update the description for the linux headers page. Remove the chmod command from the installation of readline, it already has the correct permissions.

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[3f8be484]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
[aa18ac0]2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
[3f8be484]4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-readline" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="readline.html"?>
10
11 <title>Readline-&readline-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-readline">
14 <primary sortas="a-Readline">Readline</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Readline package is a set of libraries that offers command-line
21 editing and history capabilities.</para>
22
23 </sect2>
24
25 <sect2 role="installation">
26 <title>Installation of Readline</title>
27
[001becd]28 <para os="p1">The following patch contains updates from the maintainer. The
29 maintainer of Readline only releases these patches to fix serious issues:</para>
[3f8be484]30
[001becd]31<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&readline-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]32
[001becd]33 <para os="a">Prepare Readline for compilation:</para>
[3f8be484]34
[001becd]35<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/lib</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]36
[001becd]37 <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
38
39<screen os="d"><userinput>make SHLIB_XLDFLAGS=-lncurses</userinput></screen>
40
41 <variablelist os="e">
[3f8be484]42 <title>The meaning of the make option:</title>
43
44 <varlistentry>
45 <term><parameter>SHLIB_XLDFLAGS=-lncurses</parameter></term>
46 <listitem>
47 <para>This option forces Readline to link against the
48 <filename class="libraryfile">libncurses</filename> library.</para>
49 </listitem>
50 </varlistentry>
51 </variablelist>
52
[001becd]53 <para os="f">This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
[3f8be484]54
[001becd]55 <para os="g">Install the package:</para>
[3f8be484]56
[001becd]57<screen os="h"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
[5da8aa0]58
[001becd]59 <para os="k">Now move the static libraries to a more appropriate location:</para>
[3f8be484]60
[001becd]61<screen os="l"><userinput>mv -v /lib/lib{readline,history}.a /usr/lib</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]62
[001becd]63 <para os="m">Next, remove the <filename class="extension">.so</filename>
[3f8be484]64 files in <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and relink them into
65 <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>.</para>
66
[001becd]67<screen os="n"><userinput>rm -v /lib/lib{readline,history}.so
[94e6142]68ln -svf ../../lib/libreadline.so.5 /usr/lib/libreadline.so
69ln -svf ../../lib/libhistory.so.5 /usr/lib/libhistory.so</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]70
71 </sect2>
72
73 <sect2 id="contents-readline" role="content">
74 <title>Contents of Readline</title>
75
76 <segmentedlist>
77 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
78
79 <seglistitem>
80 <seg>libhistory.[a,so], and libreadline.[a,so]</seg>
81 </seglistitem>
82 </segmentedlist>
83
84 <variablelist>
85 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
86 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
87 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
88
89 <varlistentry id="libhistory">
90 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libhistory</filename></term>
91 <listitem>
92 <para>Provides a consistent user interface
93 for recalling lines of history</para>
94 <indexterm zone="ch-system-readline libhistory">
95 <primary sortas="c-libhistory">libhistory</primary>
96 </indexterm>
97 </listitem>
98 </varlistentry>
99
100 <varlistentry id="libreadline">
101 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libreadline</filename></term>
102 <listitem>
103 <para>Aids in the consistency of user interface
104 across discrete programs that need to provide a command line
105 interface</para>
106 <indexterm zone="ch-system-readline libreadline">
107 <primary sortas="c-libreadline">libreadline</primary>
108 </indexterm>
109 </listitem>
110 </varlistentry>
111
112 </variablelist>
113
114 </sect2>
115
116</sect1>
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