10.23.2. Contents of Readline
Installed libraries: libhistory.[a,so], and libreadline.[a,so]
The Readline package is a set of libraries that offers command-line editing and history capabilities.
The following patch contains updates from the maintainer. The maintainer of Readline only releases these patches to fix serious issues:
patch -Np1 -i ../readline-5.2-fixes-4.patch
Prepare Readline for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/lib
Compile the package:
make SHLIB_XLDFLAGS=-lncurses
The meaning of the make option:
SHLIB_XLDFLAGS=-lncursesThis option forces Readline to link against the
libncurses library.
This package does not come with a test suite.
Install the package:
make install
Give Readline's dynamic libraries more appropriate permissions:
chmod -v 755 /lib/lib{readline,history}.so*Now move the static libraries to a more appropriate location:
mv -v /lib/lib{readline,history}.a /usr/libNext, 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