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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/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 <segmentedlist>
24 <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
25
26 <seglistitem>
27 <seg>Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk,
28 GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Patch, and Sed</seg>
29 </seglistitem>
30 </segmentedlist>
31
32 </sect2>
33
34 <sect2 role="installation">
35 <title>Installation of Readline</title>
36
37 <para os="p1">The following patch contains updates from the maintainer. The
38 maintainer of Readline only releases these patches to fix serious issues.</para>
39
40<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&readline-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
41
42 <para os="c">Prepare Readline for compilation:</para>
43
44<screen os="d"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/lib</userinput></screen>
45
46 <para os="e">Compile the package:</para>
47
48<screen os="f"><userinput>make SHLIB_XLDFLAGS=-lncurses</userinput></screen>
49
50 <variablelist os="g">
51 <title>The meaning of the make option:</title>
52
53 <varlistentry>
54 <term><parameter>SHLIB_XLDFLAGS=-lncurses</parameter></term>
55 <listitem>
56 <para>This option forces Readline to link against the
57 <filename class="libraryfile">libncurses</filename> library.</para>
58 </listitem>
59 </varlistentry>
60 </variablelist>
61
62 <para os="h">This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
63
64 <para os="i">Install the package:</para>
65
66<screen os="j"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
67
68 <para os="k">Give Readline's dynamic libraries more appropriate
69 permissions:</para>
70
71<screen os="l"><userinput>chmod -v 755 /lib/lib{readline,history}.so*</userinput></screen>
72
73 <para os="m">Now move the static libraries to a more appropriate location:</para>
74
75<screen os="n"><userinput>mv -v /lib/lib{readline,history}.a /usr/lib</userinput></screen>
76
77 <para os="o">Next, remove the <filename class="extension">.so</filename>
78 files in <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and relink them into
79 <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>.</para>
80
81<screen os="p"><userinput>rm -v /lib/lib{readline,history}.so
82ln -svf ../../lib/libreadline.so.5 /usr/lib/libreadline.so
83ln -svf ../../lib/libhistory.so.5 /usr/lib/libhistory.so</userinput></screen>
84
85 </sect2>
86
87 <sect2 id="contents-readline" role="content">
88 <title>Contents of Readline</title>
89
90 <segmentedlist>
91 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
92
93 <seglistitem>
94 <seg>libhistory.[a,so], and libreadline.[a,so]</seg>
95 </seglistitem>
96 </segmentedlist>
97
98 <variablelist>
99 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
100 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
101 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
102
103 <varlistentry id="libhistory">
104 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libhistory</filename></term>
105 <listitem>
106 <para>Provides a consistent user interface
107 for recalling lines of history</para>
108 <indexterm zone="ch-system-readline libhistory">
109 <primary sortas="c-libhistory">libhistory</primary>
110 </indexterm>
111 </listitem>
112 </varlistentry>
113
114 <varlistentry id="libreadline">
115 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libreadline</filename></term>
116 <listitem>
117 <para>Aids in the consistency of user interface
118 across discrete programs that need to provide a command line
119 interface</para>
120 <indexterm zone="ch-system-readline libreadline">
121 <primary sortas="c-libreadline">libreadline</primary>
122 </indexterm>
123 </listitem>
124 </varlistentry>
125
126 </variablelist>
127
128 </sect2>
129
130</sect1>
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