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6.13.1. Installation of Readline

Reinstalling Readline will cause the old libraries to be moved to <libraryname>.old. While this is normally not a problem, in some cases it can trigger a linking bug in ldconfig. This can be avoided by issuing the following two seds:


sed -i '/MV.*old/d' Makefile.in

sed -i '/{OLDSUFF}/c:' support/shlib-install

sed -i '/MV.*old/d' Makefile.in

sed -i '/{OLDSUFF}/c:' support/shlib-install

Prepare Readline for compilation:


./configure --prefix=/usr

./configure --prefix=/usr


--disable-static

--docdir=/usr/share/doc/readline-8.0

--disable-static

--docdir=/usr/share/doc/readline-8.0

Compile the package:


make SHLIB_LIBS="-L/tools/lib -lncursesw"

make SHLIB_LIBS="-L/tools/lib -lncursesw"

The meaning of the make option:

SHLIB_LIBS="-L/tools/lib -lncursesw"

This option forces Readline to link against the libncursesw library.

This package does not come with a test suite. Install the package:


make SHLIB_LIBS="-L/tools/lib -lncursesw" install

make SHLIB_LIBS="-L/tools/lib -lncursesw" install

Now move the dynamic libraries to a more appropriate location and fix up some permissions and symbolic links:


mv -v /usr/lib/lib{readline,history}.so.* /lib chmod -v u+w /lib/lib{readline,history}.so.*

ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libreadline.so) /usr/lib/libreadline.so ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libhistory.so ) /usr/lib/libhistory.so

mv -v /usr/lib/lib{readline,history}.so.* /lib chmod -v u+w /lib/lib{readline,history}.so.*

ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libreadline.so) /usr/lib/libreadline.so ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libhistory.so ) /usr/lib/libhistory.so

If desired, install the documentation:


install -v -m644 doc/*.{ps,pdf,html,dvi} /usr/share/doc/readline-8.0

install -v -m644 doc/*.{ps,pdf,html,dvi} /usr/share/doc/readline-8.0


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