diff --git a/core/readline/PKGBUILD b/core/readline/PKGBUILD
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+++ b/core/readline/PKGBUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+# $Id$
+# Maintainer: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
+# Contributor: judd <jvinet@zeroflux.org>
+
+# ALARM: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
+#  - for some reason, SHLIB_LIBS isn't populating through for our builds.
+#  - fixed with a sed.
+
+pkgname=readline
+_basever=6.3
+_patchlevel=000 #prepare for some patches
+pkgver=$_basever #.$_patchlevel
+pkgrel=1.1
+pkgdesc="GNU readline library"
+arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
+url="http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html"
+license=('GPL')
+depends=('glibc' 'ncurses')
+backup=('etc/inputrc')
+options=('!emptydirs')
+install=readline.install
+source=(http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-$_basever.tar.gz{,.sig}
+        inputrc)
+if [ $_patchlevel -gt 00 ]; then
+    for (( p=1; p<=$((10#${_patchlevel})); p++ )); do
+        source=(${source[@]} http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-$_basever-patches/readline${_basever//./}-$(printf "%03d" $p){,.sig})
+    done
+fi
+md5sums=('33c8fb279e981274f485fd91da77e94a'
+         'SKIP'
+         '58d54966c1191db45973cb3191ac621a')
+
+
+build() {
+  cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}-$_basever
+  for (( p=1; p<=$((10#${_patchlevel})); p++ )); do
+    msg "applying patch readline${_basever//./}-$(printf "%03d" $p)"
+    patch -p0 -i $srcdir/readline${_basever//./}-$(printf "%03d" $p)
+  done
+
+  # Remove RPATH from shared objects (FS#14366)
+  sed -i 's|-Wl,-rpath,$(libdir) ||g' support/shobj-conf
+
+  # fix getting -lncurses through to SHLIB_LIBS
+  sed -i 's/SHLIB_LIBS = @SHLIB_LIBS@/SHLIB_LIBS = @SHLIB_LIBS@ -lncurses/' shlib/Makefile.in
+
+  # build with -fPIC for x86_64 (FS#15634)
+  [[ $CARCH == "x86_64" ]] && CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fPIC"
+
+  ./configure --prefix=/usr
+  make SHLIB_LIBS=-lncurses
+}
+
+package() {
+  cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}-$_basever
+  make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install
+  
+  install -Dm644 ${srcdir}/inputrc ${pkgdir}/etc/inputrc
+}
diff --git a/core/readline/inputrc b/core/readline/inputrc
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index 000000000..fd13a673b
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+++ b/core/readline/inputrc
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+# do not bell on tab-completion
+#set bell-style none
+
+set meta-flag on
+set input-meta on
+set convert-meta off
+set output-meta on
+
+$if mode=emacs
+
+# for linux console and RH/Debian xterm
+"\e[1~": beginning-of-line
+"\e[4~": end-of-line
+"\e[5~": beginning-of-history
+"\e[6~": end-of-history
+"\e[7~": beginning-of-line
+"\e[3~": delete-char
+"\e[2~": quoted-insert
+"\e[5C": forward-word
+"\e[5D": backward-word
+"\e\e[C": forward-word
+"\e\e[D": backward-word
+"\e[1;5C": forward-word
+"\e[1;5D": backward-word
+
+# for rxvt
+"\e[8~": end-of-line
+
+# for non RH/Debian xterm, can't hurt for RH/DEbian xterm
+"\eOH": beginning-of-line
+"\eOF": end-of-line
+
+# for freebsd console
+"\e[H": beginning-of-line
+"\e[F": end-of-line
+$endif
diff --git a/core/readline/readline.install b/core/readline/readline.install
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index 000000000..06b646f23
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+++ b/core/readline/readline.install
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+infodir=usr/share/info
+filelist=(history.info readline.info rluserman.info)
+
+post_upgrade() {
+  [ -x usr/bin/install-info ] || return 0
+  for file in ${filelist[@]}; do
+    install-info $infodir/$file.gz $infodir/dir 2> /dev/null
+  done
+}
+
+pre_remove() {
+  [ -x usr/bin/install-info ] || return 0
+  for file in ${filelist[@]}; do
+    install-info --delete $infodir/$file.gz $infodir/dir 2> /dev/null
+  done
+}
+