source: final-system/common/readline.xml@ 75e10d2

Last change on this file since 75e10d2 was 0636f6c, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 19 years ago

r981@server (orig r979): jim | 2005-12-30 10:11:32 -0800

r1226@server: cstaub | 2005-12-30 08:35:37 -0800
Updated package deps, removed explanation of cross-compiling from final-system binutils, and removed note about GRUB's testsuite failure


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[bf8c11f]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,
[0636f6c]28 GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Patch, and Sed</seg>
[bf8c11f]29 </seglistitem>
30 </segmentedlist>
31
32 </sect2>
33
34 <sect2 role="installation">
35 <title>Installation of Readline</title>
36
[dcc18d8f]37 <para os="p1">The following patch are 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
[bf8c11f]42 <para os="c">Prepare Readline for compilation:</para>
43
[e6423a01]44<screen os="d"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/lib</userinput></screen>
[bf8c11f]45
[e6423a01]46 <para os="e">Compile the package:</para>
[bf8c11f]47
[e6423a01]48<screen os="f"><userinput>make SHLIB_XLDFLAGS=-lncurses</userinput></screen>
[bf8c11f]49
[e6423a01]50 <variablelist os="g">
[bf8c11f]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
[e6423a01]62 <para os="h">Install the package:</para>
[bf8c11f]63
[e6423a01]64<screen os="i"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
[bf8c11f]65
[f32f537]66 <para os="j">Give Readline's dynamic libraries more appropriate
[bf8c11f]67 permissions:</para>
68
[e6423a01]69<screen os="k"><userinput>chmod 755 /lib/lib{readline,history}.so*</userinput></screen>
[bf8c11f]70
[e6423a01]71 <para os="l">Now move the static libraries to a more appropriate location:</para>
[bf8c11f]72
[e6423a01]73<screen os="m"><userinput>mv /lib/lib{readline,history}.a /usr/lib</userinput></screen>
[bf8c11f]74
[e6423a01]75 <para os="n">Next, remove the <filename class="extension">.so</filename>
[bf8c11f]76 files in <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and relink them into
77 <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>.</para>
78
[e6423a01]79<screen os="o"><userinput>rm /lib/lib{readline,history}.so
[bf8c11f]80ln -sf ../../lib/libreadline.so.5 /usr/lib/libreadline.so
81ln -sf ../../lib/libhistory.so.5 /usr/lib/libhistory.so</userinput></screen>
82
83 </sect2>
84
85 <sect2 id="contents-readline" role="content">
86 <title>Contents of Readline</title>
87
88 <segmentedlist>
89 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
90
91 <seglistitem>
92 <seg>libhistory.[a,so], and libreadline.[a,so]</seg>
93 </seglistitem>
94 </segmentedlist>
95
96 <variablelist>
97 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
98 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
99 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
100
101 <varlistentry id="libhistory">
102 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libhistory</filename></term>
103 <listitem>
104 <para>Provides a consistent user interface
105 for recalling lines of history</para>
106 <indexterm zone="ch-system-readline libhistory">
107 <primary sortas="c-libhistory">libhistory</primary>
108 </indexterm>
109 </listitem>
110 </varlistentry>
111
112 <varlistentry id="libreadline">
113 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libreadline</filename></term>
114 <listitem>
115 <para>Aids in the consistency of user interface
116 across discrete programs that need to provide a command line
117 interface</para>
118 <indexterm zone="ch-system-readline libreadline">
119 <primary sortas="c-libreadline">libreadline</primary>
120 </indexterm>
121 </listitem>
122 </varlistentry>
123
124 </variablelist>
125
126 </sect2>
127
128</sect1>
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