readline - Library with command line editing functions HOWTO

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

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