readline-4.0

News

• 2000-Dec-2: obsoleted by readline-4.2-1 in the official net-release. Get it at one of these sites, in the 'contrib/readline' directory. Note that as of Dec 2, 2000, it is not yet official; it is a test release. You must specifically choose it in the setup.exe program in order to install.

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readline-4.0-cygwin-pre21.README

No binary package; very simple to build...


unpack readline-4.0.tar.gz
cd readline-4.0

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib --x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include --with-curses

make

cd examples
make
  play

cd ..
make install

  installs these files

  /usr/local/include/readline/*
  /usr/local/lib/libreadline.a
  /usr/local/lib/libhistory.a
  /usr/local/info/readline.info
  /usr/local/info/history.info
  /usr/local/man/man3/readline.3

  and runs:

  install-info --dir-file=/usr/local/info/dir /usr/local/info/readline.info
  install-info --dir-file=/usr/local/info/dir /usr/local/info/history.info

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