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How to Install Term::ReadLine::Gnu

Using Prebuilt Packages

On Debian based Linux (Ubuntu, etc.);

% sudo apt-get install libterm-readline-gnu-perl

On RPM-based Linux (Red Hat Linux, etc);

% sudo yum install -y epel-release
% sudo yum install -y perl-Term-ReadLine-Gnu

Build by Yourself

First the GNU Readline library must be installed. See How to Install the GNU Readline Library Section for information on installing the library.

Except for this, you can install this module by the standard method, i.e.

% perl Makefile.PL [--prefix=...] [--includedir=...] [--libdir=...]
% make
% make test
% make install

Or simply;

% perl Makefile.PL [options...] && 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

You may also use --prefix option. The example above is equivalent to the following:

% perl Makefile.PL --prefix=/mydir

You can specify multiple directories by separating them with colons;

% perl Makefile.PL --prefix=/termcap/dir:/readline/dir

If you are not an administrator and cannot install Perl module in your system directory, see the section: How do I keep my own module/library directory? in perlfaq8.

How to Install the GNU Readline Library

Using the latest GNU Readline Library is recommended. However, this module also supports the GNU Readline Library 2.1 or later. The GNU Readline 2.2 has a bug, so use 2.2.1 instead. The GNU Readline Library 4.2 is also not supported. Use 4.2a instead.

Executing perl Makefile.PL detects which version of the GNU Readline Library is installed and warns you if you have the unsupported version.

Install from source code of the GNU Readline Library

Download readline-XX.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline or other mirror sites. And type the following commands;

tar xzf readline-XX.tar.gz
cd readline-XX
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/gnu
make install

The example above assumes that the install prefix directory is /usr/local/gnu.

Pass it Makefile.PL as follows;

% perl Makefile.PL --prefix=/usr/local/gnu

On old versions of macOS, some special configurations were required. If you have problems with the above method, refer to INSTALL.md included in the Term::ReadLine::Gnu-1.45.

Install the GNU Readline Library Using Package

Debian based Linux

On Debian based Linux (Ubuntu, etc.) you need to install libncurses-dev package in addition to libreadline-dev package.

% sudo apt install libncurses-dev libreadline-dev

RPM-based Linux

On RPM-based Linux (Red Hat Linux, etc) you need to install ncurses-devel package in addition to readline-devel package.

% sudo yum install ncurses-devel
% sudo yum install readline-devel

Homebrew on macOS

% brew install readline

Because the GNU Readline library conflicts with the the similarly-named-but-different library installed in the base OS, homebrew does not link readline into /usr/local (it is "keg-only").

Makefile.PL uses brew prefix readline to find and use the keg directory so things work seamlessly.

brew cleanup will not remove keg-only formula, to avoid breaking things that have been linked against it. However, if you force it, brew cleanup --force, then it will remove the keg-only formula and Term::ReadLine::Gnu will cease to work. You'll need to rebuild Term::ReadLine::GNU so that it links against whichever newer version you have installed.

MSYS2

  1. Install MSYS2: See https://www.msys2.org/ .

  2. Install additional packages:

% pacman -S msys2-devel msys2-runtime-devel msys/libreadline-devel libcrypt-devel

MSWin32 (Strawberry Perl)

  1. Download and run installer from https://strawberryperl.com/

    • prebuild GNU Readline Library (DLL) is included

  2. Open Perl (command line) app

  3. Build

% perl Makefile.PL
% gmake
% gmake test
% gmake install

Some tests of the history-file handling functions in t/history.t fail with the GNU Readline Library 7.0 and 8.0 on MSYS2 and MSWin32. See the bug report for details of the bug.

If the bug is not important for you, ignore the fails on gmake test and run gmake install.

The current latest official release 5.32.1.1 (2021-01-24) contains version 8.0. The 5.36.1 dev release and later include readline 8.2. Use one of dev releases if you don't wait for the next official release.

Trouble Shooting

If you have any troubles when using or installing this module or find a bug, please open a ticket on the bug tracker on GitHub.

It will help other people who have the same problem.

When you report your issue, be sure to include the following information:

  • output of
% perl -V
% perl Makefile.PL verbose
% make test TEST_VERBOSE=1
% perl -Mblib t/00checkver.t
% echo $TERM
  • terminal emulator which you are using
  • compiler which is used to compile the GNU Readline Library (libreadline.a) if you can know.

Segmentation fault by the pager command in Perl debugger

If the pager command (| or ||) in Perl debugger causes segmentation fault, you need to fix perl5db.pl. See this ticket for details. The patch was applied on perl 5.19.9.