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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
[04494b7]31<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&readline-branch_update-patch;</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]32
[001becd]33 <para os="a">Prepare Readline for compilation:</para>
[3f8be484]34
[7cd7f99]35<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure \
36 --prefix=/usr \
37 --libdir=/lib \
[e89c4c9]38 --docdir=/usr/share/doc/readline-&readline-version;</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]39
[001becd]40 <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
41
[110e1fa]42<screen os="d"><userinput>make SHLIB_LIBS=-lncurses</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]43
[3d00c1ed]44 <para os="e">This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
[3f8be484]45
[3d00c1ed]46 <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
[3f8be484]47
[c655294]48<screen os="g"><userinput>make SHLIB_LIBS=-lncurses htmldir=/usr/share/doc/readline-&readline-version; install</userinput></screen>
[5da8aa0]49
[c806e36]50 <para os="h">Now move the static libraries to a more appropriate location:</para>
[3f8be484]51
[c806e36]52<screen os="i"><userinput>mv -v /lib/lib{readline,history}.a /usr/lib</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]53
[c806e36]54 <para os="j">Next, relink the dynamic libraries into <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> and remove the <filename class="extension">.so</filename> files in <filename class="directory">/lib</filename>.</para>
[4f743c5]55
[bd38dd3]56<screen os="k"><userinput>ln -svf ../../lib/$(readlink /lib/libreadline.so) /usr/lib/libreadline.so
[78dd6d6]57ln -svf ../../lib/$(readlink /lib/libhistory.so) /usr/lib/libhistory.so
58rm -v /lib/lib{readline,history}.so</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]59
60 </sect2>
61
62 <sect2 id="contents-readline" role="content">
63 <title>Contents of Readline</title>
64
65 <segmentedlist>
66 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
[61ad0b7f]67 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
[3f8be484]68
69 <seglistitem>
[f698055a]70 <seg>libhistory.[a,so], libreadline.[a,so]</seg>
[c873165]71 <seg>/usr/include/readline, /usr/share/doc/readline-&readline-version;, /usr/share/readline</seg>
[3f8be484]72 </seglistitem>
73 </segmentedlist>
74
75 <variablelist>
76 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
77 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
78 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
79
80 <varlistentry id="libhistory">
81 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libhistory</filename></term>
82 <listitem>
83 <para>Provides a consistent user interface
84 for recalling lines of history</para>
85 <indexterm zone="ch-system-readline libhistory">
86 <primary sortas="c-libhistory">libhistory</primary>
87 </indexterm>
88 </listitem>
89 </varlistentry>
90
91 <varlistentry id="libreadline">
92 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libreadline</filename></term>
93 <listitem>
94 <para>Aids in the consistency of user interface
95 across discrete programs that need to provide a command line
96 interface</para>
97 <indexterm zone="ch-system-readline libreadline">
98 <primary sortas="c-libreadline">libreadline</primary>
99 </indexterm>
100 </listitem>
101 </varlistentry>
102
103 </variablelist>
104
105 </sect2>
106
107</sect1>
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