ChangeLog
2018-07-25 - 6.2 -> 7.0
- Updated web site URL from
http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html
to
https://tiswww.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html
- Added repository link
- Updated Slackware version list with 14.0, 14.1, 14.2,
removed older than 13.37
- Removed md5sum verification, added sha256 verification
- Fixed /usr/man to /usr/man/man3
- More notes about old version shared libraries
- Removed the part about removing lines from aaa_elflibs,
meh
2012-05-10 - Updated to include patch #2
2011-07-05 - Set to use ftpmirror.gnu.org instead of ftp.gnu.org
- Changed description
- 5.2 -> 6.2
- Updated Slackware note for 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37,
removed all others
- Don't run 'make static shared' any more, just run 'make'
(static & shared default to yes in configure)
- Removed old leftovers like cleaning up patches from
readline 4.x
- Added links to some things that use readline
2007-09-13 - Added 3 more patches (total of 7)
2007-06-08 - Added patches
Oct 26, 2006 - 5.1 -> 5.2
Aug 2, 2006 - Added four patches from the author
Jan 6, 2006 - 5.0 -> 5.1
Oct 5, 2005 - Updated Slackware note for 10.2
- Uncommented the gpg verification part, the key is
available now
- Rearranged options to shut up new version of find
- Changed md5sum verification to output OK (or not)
- Added sha1sum verification
May 10, 2005 - Updated to include Slackware 10.1
- Removed make, gcc, binutils, fileutils/coreutils links
- Changed the download URL from ftp to http
- Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
Feb 9, 2005 - Added note about libreadline.so.4/5
Sep 16, 2004 - 4.3 + 5 patches -> 5.0
- Added prerequisites
- Replaced the note at the bottom about cleaning up elflibs
with a blurb that you can run that'll do it for you
- Added note about removing old library files
- Replaced md5sum -> textutils link with a link to coreutils
- Added a note about Perl's Term::ReadLine::Gnu module
Oct 14, 2003 - Changed gnu.org homepage link to the real one (they never
set up a copy at gnu.org)
Sep 23, 2003 - Added notes about removing libreadline and libhistory
from /var/adm/packages/elflibs*
Sep 22, 2003 - Added md5sum (verified from before ftp.gnu.org was cracked)
for people that have textutils 2.0 or less (2.1 comes with
sha1sum)
- Changed around the part that applies the five patches:
only run wget once, run it with -nc (no clobber, don't
overwrite the file if it's already there)
- Instead of removing certain /usr/lib/libhistory* and
/usr/lib/libreadline* shared lib files, just remove
/usr/lib/libreadline.* and /usr/lib/libhistory.*
- Killed the sha1sum (because the md5sum is good enough)
Aug 7, 2003 - Added the sha1sum directly, removed downloading of the
whole sha1sums file from ftp.gnu.org
- Set to re-use the patches too if they exist in ~/installed/
- Added removal of libhistory.so.4.* too
Jun 5, 2003 - Added three more patches
Apr 23, 2003 - Modernized the howto
Dec 6, 2002 - Added two official patches (see notes in each patch for
details)
- Moved to sha1sums at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/
- Updated removal of old versions
Nov 5, 2002 - Added removal of old shared lib files
Oct 28, 2002 - 4.2a -> 4.3
- Added homepage link
- Added removal of previous versions
- Added gpg verification of sha1sum, added sha1sum
verification