source: chapter06/readline.xml@ 2aee5500

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
  %general-entities;
]>
<sect1 id="ch-system-readline" xreflabel="Readline" role="wrap">
<title>Readline-&readline-version;</title>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-readline"><primary sortas="a-Readline">Readline</primary></indexterm>

<sect2 role="package"><title/>
<para>The Readline package contains the Readline command-line library.</para>

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<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>XXX SBU</seg><seg>3.8 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Readline installation depends on</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk,
GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed</seg></seglistitem>
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</sect2>

<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Readline</title>

<para>The following patch fixes various issues including a problem where Readline
sometimes will only show 33 characters on a line and then wrap to the next line.</para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../readline-&readline-version;-fixes-1.patch</userinput></screen>

<para>Prepare Readline for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>

<para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make SHLIB_XLDFLAGS=-lncurses</userinput></screen>

<para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

<para>Give Readline's dynamic libraries to a more appropriate permissions:</para>

<screen><userinput>chmod 755 /usr/lib/*.&readline-version;</userinput></screen>

<para>And move them to a more appropriate location:</para>

<screen><userinput>mv /usr/lib/lib{readline,history}.so.5* /lib</userinput></screen>

<para>Because the libraries have been moved, a few symlinks are now pointing to
non-existent files. Recreate those symlinks:</para>

<screen><userinput>ln -sf ../../lib/libhistory.so.5 /usr/lib/libhistory.so
ln -sf ../../lib/libreadline.so.5 /usr/lib/libreadline.so</userinput></screen>

</sect2>


<sect2 id="contents-readline" role="content"><title>Contents of Readline</title>
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<segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>Not checked</seg></seglistitem>
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</sect2>


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