source: BOOK/final-system/common/readline.xml@ b744835

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Last change on this file since b744835 was 81a1e30, checked in by William Harrington <kb0iic@…>, 11 years ago

Uncomment Readline branch update patch areas in final system.

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