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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [ |
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent"> |
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| 5 | %general-entities; |
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| 6 | ]> |
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| 7 | |
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-system-readline" role="wrap"> |
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="readline.html"?> |
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| 10 | |
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| 11 | <title>Readline-&readline-version;</title> |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-readline"> |
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| 14 | <primary sortas="a-Readline">Readline</primary> |
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| 15 | </indexterm> |
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| 16 | |
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| 17 | <sect2 role="package"> |
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| 18 | <title/> |
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| 19 | |
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| 20 | <para>The Readline package is a set of libraries that offers command-line |
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| 21 | editing and history capabilities.</para> |
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| 22 | |
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| 23 | </sect2> |
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| 24 | |
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| 25 | <sect2 role="installation"> |
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| 26 | <title>Installation of Readline</title> |
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| 27 | |
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[380c903] | 28 | <para os="p1">The following patch contains updates from the maintainer. The |
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[5b72bba] | 29 | maintainer of Readline only releases these patches to fix serious issues.</para> |
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| 30 | |
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| 31 | <screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&readline-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen> |
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| 32 | |
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[3f8be484] | 33 | <para os="c">Prepare Readline for compilation:</para> |
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| 34 | |
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[e0e40d3] | 35 | <screen os="d"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/lib</userinput></screen> |
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[3f8be484] | 36 | |
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[e0e40d3] | 37 | <para os="e">Compile the package:</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 38 | |
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[e0e40d3] | 39 | <screen os="f"><userinput>make SHLIB_XLDFLAGS=-lncurses</userinput></screen> |
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[3f8be484] | 40 | |
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[e0e40d3] | 41 | <variablelist os="g"> |
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[3f8be484] | 42 | <title>The meaning of the make option:</title> |
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| 43 | |
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| 44 | <varlistentry> |
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| 45 | <term><parameter>SHLIB_XLDFLAGS=-lncurses</parameter></term> |
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| 46 | <listitem> |
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| 47 | <para>This option forces Readline to link against the |
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| 48 | <filename class="libraryfile">libncurses</filename> library.</para> |
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| 49 | </listitem> |
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| 50 | </varlistentry> |
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| 51 | </variablelist> |
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| 52 | |
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[5da8aa0] | 53 | <para os="h">This package does not come with a test suite.</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 54 | |
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[5da8aa0] | 55 | <para os="i">Install the package:</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 56 | |
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[5da8aa0] | 57 | <screen os="j"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen> |
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| 58 | |
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| 59 | <para os="k">Give Readline's dynamic libraries more appropriate |
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[3f8be484] | 60 | permissions:</para> |
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| 61 | |
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[94e6142] | 62 | <screen os="l"><userinput>chmod -v 755 /lib/lib{readline,history}.so*</userinput></screen> |
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[3f8be484] | 63 | |
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[5da8aa0] | 64 | <para os="m">Now move the static libraries to a more appropriate location:</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 65 | |
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[94e6142] | 66 | <screen os="n"><userinput>mv -v /lib/lib{readline,history}.a /usr/lib</userinput></screen> |
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[3f8be484] | 67 | |
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[5da8aa0] | 68 | <para os="o">Next, remove the <filename class="extension">.so</filename> |
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[3f8be484] | 69 | files in <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and relink them into |
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| 70 | <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>.</para> |
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| 71 | |
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[94e6142] | 72 | <screen os="p"><userinput>rm -v /lib/lib{readline,history}.so |
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| 73 | ln -svf ../../lib/libreadline.so.5 /usr/lib/libreadline.so |
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| 74 | ln -svf ../../lib/libhistory.so.5 /usr/lib/libhistory.so</userinput></screen> |
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[3f8be484] | 75 | |
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| 76 | </sect2> |
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| 77 | |
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| 78 | <sect2 id="contents-readline" role="content"> |
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| 79 | <title>Contents of Readline</title> |
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| 80 | |
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| 81 | <segmentedlist> |
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| 82 | <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle> |
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| 83 | |
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| 84 | <seglistitem> |
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| 85 | <seg>libhistory.[a,so], and libreadline.[a,so]</seg> |
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| 86 | </seglistitem> |
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| 87 | </segmentedlist> |
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| 88 | |
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| 89 | <variablelist> |
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| 90 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead> |
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| 91 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?> |
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| 92 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?> |
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| 93 | |
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| 94 | <varlistentry id="libhistory"> |
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| 95 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libhistory</filename></term> |
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| 96 | <listitem> |
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| 97 | <para>Provides a consistent user interface |
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| 98 | for recalling lines of history</para> |
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| 99 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-readline libhistory"> |
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| 100 | <primary sortas="c-libhistory">libhistory</primary> |
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| 101 | </indexterm> |
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| 102 | </listitem> |
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| 103 | </varlistentry> |
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| 104 | |
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| 105 | <varlistentry id="libreadline"> |
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| 106 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libreadline</filename></term> |
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| 107 | <listitem> |
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| 108 | <para>Aids in the consistency of user interface |
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| 109 | across discrete programs that need to provide a command line |
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| 110 | interface</para> |
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| 111 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-readline libreadline"> |
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| 112 | <primary sortas="c-libreadline">libreadline</primary> |
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| 113 | </indexterm> |
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| 114 | </listitem> |
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| 115 | </varlistentry> |
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| 116 | |
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| 117 | </variablelist> |
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| 118 | |
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| 119 | </sect2> |
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| 120 | |
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| 121 | </sect1> |
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