%general-entities; ]> Readline The following patch contains updates from the maintainer. The maintainer of Readline only releases these patches to fix serious issues: patch -Np1 -i ../&readline-fixes-patch; This option forces Readline to link against the libncursesw library: sed -i 's:^SHLIB_LIBS=:SHLIB_LIBS=-lncursesw:' support/shobj-conf Prepare Readline for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/lib Compile the package: make This package does not come with a test suite. Install the package: make install Now move the static libraries to a more appropriate location: mv -v /lib/lib{readline,history}.a /usr/lib Next, remove the .so files in /lib and relink them into /usr/lib. rm -v /lib/lib{readline,history}.so ln -svf ../../lib/libreadline.so.5 /usr/lib/libreadline.so ln -svf ../../lib/libhistory.so.5 /usr/lib/libhistory.so Installed libraries libhistory.[a,so], and libreadline.[a,so] Short Descriptions libhistory Provides a consistent user interface for recalling lines of history libhistory libreadline Aids in the consistency of user interface across discrete programs that need to provide a command line interface libreadline