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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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| 6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-readline" xreflabel="Readline">
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| 7 | <title>Readline-&readline-version;</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="readline.html"?>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-readline"><primary sortas="a-Readline">Readline</primary></indexterm>
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| 11 |
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| 12 | <para>The Readline package contains the Readline command-line library.</para>
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| 13 |
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| 14 | <screen>&buildtime; XXX SBU
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| 15 | &diskspace; 3.8 MB</screen>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <para>Readline installation depends on: Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk,
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| 18 | GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed.</para>
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| 19 |
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <sect2>
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| 22 | <title>Installation of Readline</title>
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| 23 |
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| 24 | <para>Readline has a number of bugs in it that cause it to not behave the
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| 25 | way it is expected at times. Fix this behavior with the following
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| 26 | patch:</para>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../readline-&readline-version;-gnu-fixes-1.patch</userinput></screen>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <para>Now prepare Readline for compilation:</para>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 41 |
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| 42 | <para>Give Readline's dynamic libraries to a more appropriate permissions:</para>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <screen><userinput>chmod 644 /usr/lib/*.&readline-version;</userinput></screen>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <para>And move them to a more appropriate location:</para>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <screen><userinput>mv /usr/lib/lib{readline,history}.so.4* /lib</userinput></screen>
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| 49 |
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| 50 | <para>Because the libraries have been moved, a few symlinks are now pointing to
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| 51 | non-existent files. Recreate those symlinks:</para>
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| 52 |
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| 53 | <screen><userinput>ln -sf ../../lib/libhistory.so.4 /usr/lib/libhistory.so
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| 54 | ln -sf ../../lib/libreadline.so.4 /usr/lib/libreadline.so</userinput></screen>
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| 55 |
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| 56 | </sect2>
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| 57 |
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| 58 |
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| 59 | <sect2 id="contents-readline"><title>Contents of Readline</title>
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| 60 | <para><emphasis>Installed libraries</emphasis>: Not checked.</para>
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| 61 | </sect2>
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| 62 |
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| 63 |
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| 64 | </sect1>
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