source: final-system/common/readline.xml @ dcc18d8f

Last change on this file since dcc18d8f was dcc18d8f, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r953@server (orig r951): jim | 2005-12-22 00:47:27 -0800

r1172@server: jim | 2005-12-22 00:40:48 -0800
Added Readline Patch from Maintainer


001 - A problem with the readline callback interface can result in segmentation

faults when using the delete-char function via a multiple-key sequence.
Two consecutive calls to delete-char will crash the application calling
readline.




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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, 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 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
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">Install the package:</para>
63
64<screen os="i"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
65
66    <para os="j">Give Readline's dynamic libraries more appropriate
67    permissions:</para>
68
69<screen os="k"><userinput>chmod 755 /lib/lib{readline,history}.so*</userinput></screen>
70
71    <para os="l">Now move the static libraries to a more appropriate location:</para>
72
73<screen os="m"><userinput>mv /lib/lib{readline,history}.a /usr/lib</userinput></screen>
74
75    <para os="n">Next, remove the <filename class="extension">.so</filename>
76    files in <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and relink them into
77    <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>.</para>
78
79<screen os="o"><userinput>rm /lib/lib{readline,history}.so
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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