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Port details on branch 2024Q2
libedit Command line editor library
3.1.20260512,1 devel Σ=52 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 3.1.20260512,1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: osa@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2002-02-10 22:34:30
Last Update: 2026-06-05 17:40:31
Commit Hash: e86d34a
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License: BSD2CLAUSE
WWW:
https://thrysoee.dk/editline/
Description: #
libedit provides command line editing functionality. Both emacs and vi key bindings are supported. Note that the base system also includes libedit, but this port is generally more current.
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb
Manual pages: #
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pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist #
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  1. @ldconfig
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/libedit-3.1.20260512,1/catalog.mk
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/libedit-3.1.20260512,1/LICENSE
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/libedit-3.1.20260512,1/BSD2CLAUSE
  5. include/editline/readline.h
  6. include/histedit.h
  7. lib/libedit.a
  8. lib/libedit.so
  9. lib/libedit.so.0
  10. lib/libedit.so.0.0.78
  11. libdata/pkgconfig/libedit.pc
  12. share/man/man3/editline.3.gz
  13. share/man/man3/el_deletestr.3.gz
  14. share/man/man3/el_end.3.gz
  15. share/man/man3/el_get.3.gz
  16. share/man/man3/el_getc.3.gz
  17. share/man/man3/el_gets.3.gz
  18. share/man/man3/el_history.3.gz
  19. share/man/man3/el_history_end.3.gz
  20. share/man/man3/el_history_init.3.gz
  21. share/man/man3/el_history_w.3.gz
  22. share/man/man3/el_history_wend.3.gz
  23. share/man/man3/el_history_winit.3.gz
  24. share/man/man3/el_init.3.gz
  25. share/man/man3/el_init_fd.3.gz
  26. share/man/man3/el_insertstr.3.gz
  27. share/man/man3/el_line.3.gz
  28. share/man/man3/el_parse.3.gz
  29. share/man/man3/el_push.3.gz
  30. share/man/man3/el_reset.3.gz
  31. share/man/man3/el_resize.3.gz
  32. share/man/man3/el_set.3.gz
  33. share/man/man3/el_source.3.gz
  34. share/man/man3/el_tok_end.3.gz
  35. share/man/man3/el_tok_init.3.gz
  36. share/man/man3/el_tok_line.3.gz
  37. share/man/man3/el_tok_reset.3.gz
  38. share/man/man3/el_tok_str.3.gz
  39. share/man/man3/el_tok_wend.3.gz
  40. share/man/man3/el_tok_winit.3.gz
  41. share/man/man3/el_tok_wline.3.gz
  42. share/man/man3/el_tok_wreset.3.gz
  43. share/man/man3/el_tok_wstr.3.gz
  44. share/man/man3/el_wdeletestr.3.gz
  45. share/man/man3/el_wget.3.gz
  46. share/man/man3/el_wgetc.3.gz
  47. share/man/man3/el_wgets.3.gz
  48. share/man/man3/el_winsertstr.3.gz
  49. share/man/man3/el_wline.3.gz
  50. share/man/man3/el_wparse.3.gz
  51. share/man/man3/el_wpush.3.gz
  52. share/man/man3/el_wset.3.gz
  53. share/man/man5/editrc.5.gz
  54. share/man/man7/editline.7.gz
  55. @owner
  56. @group
  57. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • For RUN/BUILD depends:
    • libedit>0:devel/libedit
  • For LIB depends:
    • libedit.so:devel/libedit
To install the port: #
cd /usr/ports/devel/libedit/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install devel/libedit
  • pkg install libedit
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: libedit
Flavors: #
there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo: #
TIMESTAMP = 1779895092 SHA256 (libedit-20260512-3.1.tar.gz) = 432d5e7ea8b0116dd39f2eca7bc11d0eed77faa6b77ea526ace89907c23ea4a0 SIZE (libedit-20260512-3.1.tar.gz) = 550471
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC): #
libedit
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386
FreeBSD:14:latest3.1.20260512,13.1.20260512,13.1.20221030,13.1.20250104,13.1.20260512,1
FreeBSD:14:quarterly3.1.20260512,13.1.20260512,1-3.1.20250104,13.1.20260512,1
FreeBSD:15:latest3.1.20260512,13.1.20260512,1n/a3.1.20250104,1n/a
FreeBSD:15:quarterly3.1.20260512,13.1.20260512,1n/a-n/a
FreeBSD:16:latest3.1.20260512,13.1.20260512,1n/a-n/a
This port has no dependencies. #
This port is required by: #
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  1. devel/libclc
  2. math/cvc5

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  2. comms/bladerf
  3. comms/wsjtx
  4. databases/firebird30-client
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  7. databases/firebird40-server
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  5. databases/mariadb114-server
  6. databases/mariadb118-client
  7. databases/mariadb118-server
  8. databases/mariadb123-client
  9. databases/mariadb123-server
  10. databases/mysql2610-client
  11. databases/mysql2610-server
  12. databases/mysql267-client
  13. databases/mysql267-server
  14. databases/mysql80-client
  15. databases/mysql80-server
  16. databases/mysql84-client
  17. databases/mysql84-server
  18. databases/mysql97-client
  19. databases/mysql97-server
  20. databases/sqlcipher
  21. databases/sqlite3
  22. databases/sqlrelay
  23. devel/elf
  24. devel/gcli
  25. devel/llvm-devel
  26. devel/llvm19
  27. devel/llvm20
  28. devel/llvm21
  29. devel/llvm22
  30. devel/llvm23
  31. devel/p5-Term-EditLine
  32. devel/php82-readline
  33. devel/php83-readline
  34. devel/php84-readline
  35. devel/php85-readline
  36. devel/php86-readline
  37. devel/pructl
  38. devel/rubygem-readline-ext
  39. devel/rudiments
  40. devel/zapcc
  41. dns/bind-tools
  42. dns/bind9-devel
  43. dns/bind920
  44. dns/dnsdist
  45. dns/knot-resolver
  46. dns/knot3
  47. emulators/mgba
  48. emulators/open-simh
  49. finance/ledger
  50. ftp/tnftp
  51. games/open-adventure
  52. japanese/uim-anthy-unicode
  53. lang/julia
  54. lang/lua51
  55. lang/lua52
  56. lang/lua53
  57. lang/lua54
  58. lang/lua55
  59. lang/nll
  60. lang/swift510
  61. lang/swift6
  62. lang/swipl
  63. math/gh-bc
  64. math/gnubc
  65. math/ised
  66. multimedia/cx88
  67. multimedia/tsduck
  68. net/asterisk20
  69. net/asterisk22
  70. net/axa
  71. net/chrony
  72. net/chrony-lite
  73. net/freeswitch
  74. net/honeyd
  75. net/mosquitto
  76. net/ntp
  77. net-mgmt/icinga2
  78. net-mgmt/netxms
  79. security/kc
  80. security/openssh-portable
  81. sysutils/hexpeek
  82. sysutils/xorriso
  83. textproc/groonga
  84. textproc/ibus-uim
  85. textproc/link-grammar
  86. textproc/ucto
  87. textproc/uim
  88. textproc/uim-gtk3
  89. textproc/uim-gtk4
  90. textproc/uim-m17nlib
  91. textproc/uim-qt5
  92. textproc/uim-qt6
  93. textproc/uim-wayland
  94. www/varnish7
  95. www/vinyl09
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  2. databases/cockroach*
  3. databases/firebird25-client*
  4. databases/mariadb101-client*
  5. databases/mariadb101-server*
  6. databases/mariadb102-client*
  7. databases/mariadb102-server*
  8. databases/mariadb103-client*
  9. databases/mariadb103-server*
  10. databases/mariadb104-client*
  11. databases/mariadb104-server*
  12. databases/mariadb105-client*
  13. databases/mariadb105-server*
  14. databases/mariadb106-client*
  15. databases/mariadb106-server*
  16. databases/mariadb114-connector-c*
  17. databases/mysql56-client*
  18. databases/mysql56-server*
  19. databases/mysql57-client*
  20. databases/mysql57-server*
  21. databases/mysql81-client*
  22. databases/mysql81-server*
  23. databases/mysql90-client*
  24. databases/mysql90-server*
  25. databases/mysql91-client*
  26. databases/mysql91-server*
  27. databases/mysql94-client*
  28. databases/mysql94-server*
  29. databases/mysql96-client*
  30. databases/mysql96-server*
  31. databases/mysqlwsrep56-server*
  32. databases/mysqlwsrep57-server*
  33. databases/percona-pam-for-mysql*
  34. databases/percona56-client*
  35. databases/percona57-client*
  36. databases/percona57-pam-for-mysql*
  37. databases/percona57-server*
  38. devel/ccons*
  39. devel/eclipse-titan*
  40. devel/f18*
  41. devel/flang*
  42. devel/flang-clang*
  43. devel/libreadline-java*
  44. devel/llvm-cheri128*
  45. devel/llvm10*
  46. devel/llvm11*
  47. devel/llvm35*
  48. devel/llvm36*
  49. devel/llvm37*
  50. devel/llvm38*
  51. devel/llvm39*
  52. devel/llvm40*
  53. devel/llvm50*
  54. devel/llvm60*
  55. devel/llvm70*
  56. devel/llvm80*
  57. devel/llvm90*
  58. devel/php80-readline*
  59. devel/php81-readline*
  60. dns/bind910*
  61. dns/bind911*
  62. dns/bind912*
  63. dns/bind913*
  64. dns/bind914*
  65. dns/bind916*
  66. dns/bind918*
  67. dns/bind99*
  68. dns/knot2*
  69. dns/knot3-lib*
  70. dns/samba-nsupdate*
  71. japanese/uim-anthy*
  72. lang/J*
  73. lang/clang34*
  74. lang/clang35*
  75. lang/clang36*
  76. lang/onyx*
  77. lang/pure*
  78. lang/rubinius*
  79. lang/ruby20*
  80. lang/ruby21*
  81. lang/ruby22*
  82. lang/ruby23*
  83. lang/ruby24*
  84. lang/ruby25*
  85. lang/ruby26*
  86. lang/ruby27*
  87. lang/ruby30*
  88. lang/ruby31*
  89. lang/ruby32*
  90. lang/swi-pl*
  91. lang/swift*
  92. math/sage*
  93. net/asterisk13*
  94. net/asterisk15*
  95. net/asterisk16*
  96. net/asterisk18*
  97. net/freebsd-tftp*
  98. net/ntp-devel*
  99. net/ntp-rc*
  100. security/ike*
  101. security/kc24*
  102. security/openssh-portable-devel*
  103. textproc/uim-gtk*
  104. textproc/uim-gtk2*
  105. textproc/uim-kde4*
  106. textproc/uim-qt4*
  107. textproc/zorba*
  108. www/varnish4*
  109. www/varnish5*
  110. www/varnish6*
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cpe libtool localbase ncurses pathfix
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