readline-4.3

Introduction to readline

Download location (HTTP):       http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-4.3.tar.gz
Download location (FTP):        ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-4.3.tar.gz
Version used:                   4.3
Package size:                   939 KB
Estimated Disk space required:  4.9 MB

The readline package contains a stream oriented C library for parsing XML.

Installation of readline

Install readline by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install


Configuring readline

Configuration Information

As with most libraries, there is no configuration to do, save that the library directory i.e. /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib should appear in /etc/ld.so.conf so that ldd can find the shared libraries. After checking that this is the case, /sbin/ldconfig should be run whilst logged in as root.

Contents

The readline package contains the GNU readline and history libraries.