The Readline package is a set of libraries that offers command-line editing and history capabilities.
The following patch contains updates from the maintainer. The maintainer of Readline only releases these patches to fix serious issues:
patch -Np1 -i ../readline-5.2-fixes-4.patch
Prepare Readline for compilation:
CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" CXX="g++ ${BUILD64}" \ ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/lib64
Compile the package:
make SHLIB_XLDFLAGS=-lncurses
The meaning of the make option:
SHLIB_XLDFLAGS=-lncurses
This option forces Readline to link against the libncurses
library.
This package does not come with a test suite.
Install the package:
make install
Give Readline's dynamic libraries more appropriate permissions:
chmod -v 755 /lib64/lib{readline,history}.so*
Now move the static libraries to a more appropriate location:
mv -v /lib64/lib{readline,history}.a /usr/lib64
Next, remove the .so
files in
/lib64
and relink them into
/usr/lib64
.
rm -v /lib64/lib{readline,history}.so ln -svf ../../lib64/libreadline.so.5 /usr/lib64/libreadline.so ln -svf ../../lib64/libhistory.so.5 /usr/lib64/libhistory.so