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readline Library for editing command lines as they are typed
8.3.3 devel on this many watch lists=73 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 8.3.3Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: sunpoet@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2003-12-28 10:33:47
Last Update: 2025-12-30 13:29:05
Commit Hash: 171149c
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License: GPLv3
WWW:
https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html
Description:
The GNU Readline library provides a set of functions for use by applications that allow users to edit command lines as they are typed in. Both Emacs and vi editing modes are available. The Readline library includes additional functions to maintain a list of previously-entered command lines, to recall and perhaps reedit those lines, and perform csh-like history expansion on previous commands.
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Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. @ldconfig
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/readline-8.3.3/catalog.mk
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/readline-8.3.3/LICENSE
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/readline-8.3.3/GPLv3
  5. include/readline/chardefs.h
  6. include/readline/history.h
  7. include/readline/keymaps.h
  8. include/readline/readline.h
  9. include/readline/rlconf.h
  10. include/readline/rlstdc.h
  11. include/readline/rltypedefs.h
  12. include/readline/tilde.h
  13. lib/libhistory.a
  14. lib/libhistory.so
  15. lib/libhistory.so.8
  16. lib/libhistory.so.8.3
  17. lib/libreadline.a
  18. lib/libreadline.so
  19. lib/libreadline.so.8
  20. lib/libreadline.so.8.3
  21. libdata/pkgconfig/history.pc
  22. libdata/pkgconfig/readline.pc
  23. share/doc/readline/CHANGES
  24. share/doc/readline/INSTALL
  25. share/doc/readline/README
  26. share/doc/readline/history.html
  27. share/doc/readline/readline.html
  28. share/doc/readline/rluserman.html
  29. share/man/man3/history.3.gz
  30. share/man/man3/readline.3.gz
  31. share/readline/excallback.c
  32. share/readline/fileman.c
  33. share/readline/hist_erasedups.c
  34. share/readline/hist_purgecmd.c
  35. share/readline/histexamp.c
  36. share/readline/manexamp.c
  37. share/readline/rl-callbacktest.c
  38. share/readline/rl-callbacktest2.c
  39. share/readline/rl-callbacktest3.c
  40. share/readline/rl-fgets.c
  41. share/readline/rl-timeout.c
  42. share/readline/rl.c
  43. share/readline/rlbasic.c
  44. share/readline/rlcat.c
  45. share/readline/rlevent.c
  46. share/readline/rlkeymaps.c
  47. share/readline/rlptytest.c
  48. share/readline/rltest.c
  49. share/readline/rlversion.c
  50. @owner
  51. @group
  52. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
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Dependency lines:
  • readline>0:devel/readline
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/devel/readline/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install devel/readline
  • pkg install readline
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: readline
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1766953310 SHA256 (readline-8.3.tar.gz) = fe5383204467828cd495ee8d1d3c037a7eba1389c22bc6a041f627976f9061cc SIZE (readline-8.3.tar.gz) = 3419642

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SHA256 (readline83-001) = 21f0a03106dbe697337cd25c70eb0edbaa2bdb6d595b45f83285cdd35bac84de SIZE (readline83-001) = 1846 SHA256 (readline83-002) = e27364396ba9f6debf7cbaaf1a669e2b2854241ae07f7eca74ca8a8ba0c97472 SIZE (readline83-002) = 1613 SHA256 (readline83-003) = 72dee13601ce38f6746eb15239999a7c56f8e1ff5eb1ec8153a1f213e4acdb29 SIZE (readline83-003) = 2284

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FreeBSD:15:latest8.3.38.3.3n/a8.2.13_2n/an/a8.2.7_18.2.7_1
FreeBSD:15:quarterly8.3.38.3.3n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest8.3.38.3.3n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
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Runtime dependencies:
  1. indexinfo : print/indexinfo
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