The Readline package is a set of libraries that offer command-line editing and history capabilities.
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
Now fix a problem identified upstream:
patch -Np1 -i ../readline-8.2-upstream_fix-1.patch
Prepare Readline for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--disable-static \
--with-curses \
--docdir=/usr/share/doc/readline-8.2
The meaning of the new configure option:
--with-curses
This option tells Readline that it can find the termcap
library functions in the curses library, not a separate
termcap library. This will generate the correct readline.pc file.
Compile the package:
make SHLIB_LIBS="-lncursesw"
The meaning of the make option:
SHLIB_LIBS="-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="-lncursesw" install
If desired, install the documentation:
install -v -m644 doc/*.{ps,pdf,html,dvi} /usr/share/doc/readline-8.2