6.24.2. Contents of Readline
Installed libraries:
libhistory.so, and libreadline.so
The Readline package is a set of libraries that offers command-line editing and history capabilities.
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs/wiki/readline
Upstream developers have fixed several issues since the initial release of Readline-5.2. Apply those fixes:
patch -Np1 -i ../readline-5.2-fixes-5.patch
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 '/MV.*old/d' -i.orig Makefile.in
sed '/{OLDSUFF}/c:' -i.orig support/shlib-install
Prepare Readline for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/lib \
--disable-static
Compile the package:
make SHLIB_LIBS=-lncurses
The meaning of the make option:
SHLIB_LIBS=-lncurses
This option forces Readline to link against the libncurses (really, libncursesw) library.
This package does not come with a test suite.
Install the package:
make install
Next, remove the .so files in
/lib and relink them into
/usr/lib:
rm -v /lib/lib{readline,history}.so
ln -vsf ../../lib/libreadline.so.5 /usr/lib/libreadline.so
ln -vsf ../../lib/libhistory.so.5 /usr/lib/libhistory.so