This is the distribution of the Gnu Readline library. See the file STANDALONE for a description of the #defines that can be passed via the makefile to build readline on different systems. The file rlconf.h contains defines that enable and disable certain readline features.
In the course of my project of the last couple hours of making
available recent, posix-free, optimized, obese, reasonably configured
binaries of some of the more common free programs and libraries, here
is readline-2.0. To install on a typical system, just enter the
directory and 'make install'. Installing the man and info pages from
the doc directory has to be done by hand.
If you need to change compilation options to adapt the binaries to
local requirements (e.g. to change what architectures to compile for
-- the default is quad-fat), do _not_ rerun configure. Instead edit
config.status, rerun it and remake. It has been manually altered to
correct for some of the mistakes of the auto-configuration.
Carl Edman 10-23-95
cedman@princeton.edu
I made a couple of mods to Carl's distribution.
1) removed configure-- if you really want to reconfigure the source,
download the original distribution.
2) changed the optimization to '-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer'; this seems
to be an acceptably bug-free level of optimization.
3) removed depedency upon /usr/local/bin/install
b.bum 10-24-95
<bbum@friday.com>
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