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# $Id: INSTALL,v 1.23 2009/03/20 16:06:37 hiroo Exp $
You need the GNU Readline library installed. Except for this,
you can install this module by the standard method, i.e.
perl Makefile.PL; make install
1.1 Install GNU Readline library 2.1 or later and their header files.
See the section `How to Install GNU Readline Library'.
1.2 Make and install
% perl Makefile.PL [--prefix=...] [--includedir=...] [--libdir=...]
% make
% make test
% make install
If you have installed the GNU Readline Library
(libreadline.{a,so} and readline/readline.h, etc.) on
directories for which your perl is not configured to search
(refer the value of ccflags and libpath in the output of `perl
-V'), specify the paths as follows;
% perl Makefile.PL --includedir=/mydir/include --libdir=/mydir/lib
This example is equivalent to the following;
% perl Makefile.PL --prefix=/mydir
If you are not an administrator and cannot install Perl module
in your system directory, try
perldoc perlfaq8
and see the section 'How do I keep my own module/library
directory?' (This section is found in the Perl 5.6
documentation).
1.3 Known Issue - Segmentation Fault during exiting Perl.
If "make test" fails even though all test passed, try
perl -Mblib t/00checkver.t
If segmentation fault occurs after all test done, if encounter
the putenv() bug. You have to recompile Perl with
-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV. See
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37194
for more details.
1.4 Trouble Shooting
If you have any trouble when using or installing this module,
please let me (hiroo.hayashi@computer.org) know by E-Mail. It
may help other people who have the same problem. I'm sorry
that I cannot watch all articles on comp.lang.perl.modules.
When you report your trouble, be sure to send me the following
information;
o result of `perl -V'
o compiler you used to compile the GNU Readline Library
(libreadline.a).
o terminal emulator which you are using
o result of `echo $TERM`
2. How to Install GNU Readline Library
Now this module supports only GNU Readline Library 2.1 and
later. Executing `perl Makefile.PL` detects which version of
the GNU Readline Library is already installed and warns you if
you have the unsupported version.
In the following example, the install prefix directory is
`/usr/local/gnu'.
You can specify any directory for the GNU Readline library and
its header files, by editing `LIBS' and/or `INC' section in
Makefile.PL.
2.1. Install
readline-2.2.tar.gz has some bugs, so I strongly recommend you
to use readline-2.2.1.tar.gz and/or later instead.
1. get and extract readline-XX.tar.gz
2. configure
% ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/gnu
3. make and install
% make install
If you have any reason in which use must use one of the follows;
readline-2.1
libreadline.a in bash-2.0.tar.gz
Cygwin b20.1
see INSTALL file which is included in Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.11.
2.2 Shared Library
!!!Description in this section is old. See document in the GNU
Readline Library.!!!
If you want to build it as shared library, use readline-4.0
(or later). Type `make shared' instead of `make' to build
shared library.
You HAVE TO build the library as shared library on the
following OSs;
HPUX
You DON'T HAVE TO and may build the library as shared library
on the following OSs;
GNU/Linux 2.x
SunOS 4.x, 5.x
AIX 4.1.x
Cygwin 20.x
# Please let me know on your experience on others OSs.
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