Chris Staub wrote:
> On 03/03/2010 04:07 AM, David Shaw wrote:
>
>> After compiling Bash in chapter 6 and switching to using the new
>> version, I've noticed that long commands, instead of wrapping to the
>> next line, scroll off the left hand edge of the screen.
>>
>> How do I restore the former, wrapping behaviour? I've had a look at the
>> manpage for bash and tried googling for information, but can't see what
>> I'm looking for.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> David Shaw
>>
>
> This is the typical result when Ncurses is not installed, causing Bash
> to use its own internal version. I'd check whether you've got Ncurses
> and Readline correctly installed...
>
> ls -l /{usr/,}lib/lib*{readline,curses}*
>
root:/# ls -l /{usr/,}lib/lib*{readline,curses}*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Feb 25 00:27 /lib/libncursesw.so.5 ->
libncursesw.so.5.7
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 341934 Feb 25 00:27 /lib/libncursesw.so.5.7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Feb 27 02:45 /lib/libreadline.so.6 ->
libreadline.so.6.0
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 495550 Feb 27 02:45 /lib/libreadline.so.6.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 25 00:34 /usr/lib/libcurses.a ->
libncurses.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 25 00:35 /usr/lib/libcurses.so ->
libncurses.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 25 00:34 /usr/lib/libcursesw.a ->
libncursesw.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18 Feb 25 00:33 /usr/lib/libcursesw.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 25 00:32 /usr/lib/libncurses++.a ->
libncurses++w.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 144480 Feb 25 00:27 /usr/lib/libncurses++w.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 25 00:32 /usr/lib/libncurses.a ->
libncursesw.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17 Feb 25 00:32 /usr/lib/libncurses.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 476978 Feb 25 00:27 /usr/lib/libncursesw.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Feb 25 00:27 /usr/lib/libncursesw.so ->
libncursesw.so.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 675644 Feb 27 02:45 /usr/lib/libreadline.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Feb 27 02:47 /usr/lib/libreadline.so ->
../../lib/libreadline.so.6
Not entirely sure what I'm looking for, so I don't know whether that's
right or not.
David
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