tar zxvf readline-6.1.tar.gz
cd readline-6.1
./configure
make
checkinstall --install=no
...
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**** RPM package creation selected ***
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This package will be built according to these values:

1 -  Summary: [ readline 6.1 ]
2 -  Name:    [ readline ]
3 -  Version: [ 6.1 ]
4 -  Release: [ 1 ]
5 -  License: [ GPL ]
6 -  Group:   [ Applications/System ]
7 -  Architecture: [ i386 ]
8 -  Source location: [ readline-6.1 ]
9 -  Alternate source location: [  ]
10 - Requires: [  ]
11 - Provides: [ readline ]
...
mv /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/readline-6.1-1.i386.rpm .
rpm -ivh readline-6.1-1.i386.rpm