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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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
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>
30
31<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&readline-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
32
33 <para os="s1">This option forces Readline to link against the
34 <filename class="libraryfile">libncursesw</filename> library:</para>
35
36<screen os="s2"><userinput>sed -i 's:^SHLIB_LIBS=:SHLIB_LIBS=-lncursesw:' support/shobj-conf</userinput></screen>
37
38 <para os="a">Prepare Readline for compilation:</para>
39
40<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/lib</userinput></screen>
41
42 <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
43
44<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
45
46 <para os="e">This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
47
48 <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
49
50<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
51
52 <para os="h">Now move the static libraries to a more appropriate location:</para>
53
54<screen os="i"><userinput>mv -v /lib/lib{readline,history}.a /usr/lib</userinput></screen>
55
56 <para os="j">Next, remove the <filename class="extension">.so</filename>
57 files in <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and relink them into
58 <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>.</para>
59
60<screen os="k"><userinput>rm -v /lib/lib{readline,history}.so
61ln -svf ../../lib/libreadline.so.5 /usr/lib/libreadline.so
62ln -svf ../../lib/libhistory.so.5 /usr/lib/libhistory.so</userinput></screen>
63
64 </sect2>
65
66 <sect2 id="contents-readline" role="content">
67 <title>Contents of Readline</title>
68
69 <segmentedlist>
70 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
71
72 <seglistitem>
73 <seg>libhistory.[a,so], and libreadline.[a,so]</seg>
74 </seglistitem>
75 </segmentedlist>
76
77 <variablelist>
78 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
79 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
80 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
81
82 <varlistentry id="libhistory">
83 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libhistory</filename></term>
84 <listitem>
85 <para>Provides a consistent user interface
86 for recalling lines of history</para>
87 <indexterm zone="ch-system-readline libhistory">
88 <primary sortas="c-libhistory">libhistory</primary>
89 </indexterm>
90 </listitem>
91 </varlistentry>
92
93 <varlistentry id="libreadline">
94 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libreadline</filename></term>
95 <listitem>
96 <para>Aids in the consistency of user interface
97 across discrete programs that need to provide a command line
98 interface</para>
99 <indexterm zone="ch-system-readline libreadline">
100 <primary sortas="c-libreadline">libreadline</primary>
101 </indexterm>
102 </listitem>
103 </varlistentry>
104
105 </variablelist>
106
107 </sect2>
108
109</sect1>
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