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-7.0-branch_update-1.patch
Reinstalling Readline moves the old libraries to <libraryname> and a linking bug may occur in ldconfig. Prevent this with the following seds:
sed -i '/MV.*old/d' Makefile.in
sed -i '/{OLDSUFF}/c:' support/shlib-install
Prepare Readline for compilation:
./configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--libdir=/lib \
--docdir=/usr/share/doc/readline-7.0
Compile the package:
make SHLIB_LIBS=-lncurses
This package does not come with a test suite.
Install the package:
make SHLIB_LIBS=-lncurses htmldir=/usr/share/doc/readline-7.0 install
Now move the static libraries to a more appropriate location:
mv -v /lib/lib{readline,history}.a /usr/lib
Next, relink the dynamic libraries into /usr/lib and remove the .so files in /lib.
ln -svf ../../lib/$(readlink /lib/libreadline.so) /usr/lib/libreadline.so
ln -svf ../../lib/$(readlink /lib/libhistory.so) /usr/lib/libhistory.so
rm -v /lib/lib{readline,history}.so