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| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/changelog.xml | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/readline.xml | 8 |
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diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index ddc66a61e..f8cdd826c 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ <para>May 1, 2006</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> + <para>[archaic] - Added two seds to avoid symlink problems with + Readline during reinstallation. Thanks to Dan and Manuel for the fix + and for testing. Fixes ticket #1770.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> <para>[archaic] - Fixed issue where module-init-tools would not re-install its binaries.</para> </listitem> diff --git a/chapter06/readline.xml b/chapter06/readline.xml index 098b7992f..747515be9 100644 --- a/chapter06/readline.xml +++ b/chapter06/readline.xml @@ -40,6 +40,14 @@ <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&readline-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen> + <para>Reinstalling Readline will cause the old libraries to be moved to + <libraryname>.old. While this is normally not a problem, in some cases + it can trigger a linking bug in <command>ldconfig</command>. This can be + avoided by issuing the following two seds:</para> + +<screen><userinput>sed -i '/MV.*old/d' Makefile.in +sed -i '/{OLDSUFF}/c:' support/shlib-install</userinput></screen> + <para>Prepare Readline for compilation:</para> <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/lib</userinput></screen> |