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-6.2-branch_update-1.patch
Prepare Readline for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/lib
Compile the package:
make SHLIB_LIBS=-lncurses
This package does not come with a test suite.
Install the package:
make install
Install the documentation:
make install-doc
Now move the static libraries to a more appropriate location:
mv -v /lib/lib{readline,history}.a /usr/lib
Next, remove the .so files in
/lib and relink them into
/usr/lib.
rm -v /lib/lib{readline,history}.so
ln -svf ../../lib/libreadline.so.6 /usr/lib/libreadline.so
ln -svf ../../lib/libhistory.so.6 /usr/lib/libhistory.so