%general-entities; ]> Readline-&readline-version; 64 Bit Readline Installation of Readline CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" CXX="g++ ${BUILD64}" \ ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --libdir=/lib64 \ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/readline-&readline-version; mv -v /lib64/lib{readline,history}.a /usr/lib64 Next, relink the dynamic libraries into /usr/lib64 and remove the .so files in /lib64. ln -svf ../../lib64/$(readlink /lib64/libreadline.so) /usr/lib64/libreadline.so ln -svf ../../lib64/$(readlink /lib64/libhistory.so) /usr/lib64/libhistory.so rm -v /lib64/lib{readline,history}.so