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Port details on branch 2026Q4
readline Library for editing command lines as they are typed
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Maintainer: sunpoet@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2003-12-28 10:33:47
Last Update: 2026-09-20 00:55:52
Commit Hash: 062adc3
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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.
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb

Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. @ldconfig
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/readline-8.3.6/catalog.mk
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/readline-8.3.6/LICENSE
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/readline-8.3.6/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 = 1789834514 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 SHA256 (readline83-004) = 1f189c4566aa35950964647b9ec3be1a821e42b86048129c63eb7f9d4d2f5a74 SIZE (readline83-004) = 2112 SHA256 (readline83-005) = 5481adbe161c9f6ba972c74db9e18c7aa351d3df3035cc4a673a1aa06247d1c6 SIZE (readline83-005) = 2511 SHA256 (readline83-006) = 4ebd261a608287796e171af0ea9af5a1e3122e46672accda2484b6698c47c1a4 SIZE (readline83-006) = 1422

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Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
readline
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64leriscv64
FreeBSD:13:latest8.3.38.3.3n/an/an/an/an/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly8.3.38.3.3n/an/an/an/an/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest8.3.68.3.68.2.08.2.13_28.3.68.2.1-8.2.1-
FreeBSD:14:quarterly8.3.38.3.6-8.2.13_28.3.68.2.78.2.78.2.7-
FreeBSD:15:latest8.3.68.3.6n/a8.2.13_2n/an/a8.2.7_18.2.7_1-
FreeBSD:15:quarterly8.3.68.3.3n/a-n/an/a---
FreeBSD:16:latest8.3.68.3.6n/a-n/an/a---
Dependencies
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Runtime dependencies:
  1. indexinfo : print/indexinfo
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