lfs-book/chapter05/bash-inst.xml

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<title>Installation of Bash</title>

<para>
Install Bash by running the following commands:
</para>

<para>
<screen>
<userinput>./configure --enable-static-link --prefix=$LFS/usr \</userinput>
<userinput>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--bindir=$LFS/bin --with-curses &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>make &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>make install &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>cd $LFS/bin &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>ln -s bash sh</userinput>
</screen>
</para>

<para>
If the make install phase ends with something along the lines of
</para>

<blockquote>
<screen>
install-info: unknown option `--dir-file=/mnt/lfs/usr/info/dir' 
usage: install-info [--version] [--help] [--debug] [--maxwidth=nnn] 
	[--section regexp title] [--infodir=xxx] [--align=nnn] 
	[--calign=nnn] [--quiet] [--menuentry=xxx]
	[--info-dir=xxx] 
	[--keep-old] [--description=xxx] [--test]
	[--remove] [--] filename 
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1 
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/usr/src/bash-2.04/doc' 
make: [install] Error 2 (ignored)
</screen>
</blockquote>

<para>
then that means that you are probably using Debian, and that you have an
old version of the texinfo package. This error is not severe by any means: the
info pages will be installed when we recompile bash dynamically in
chapter 6, so you can ignore it. You do, however, have to run the last
two commands manually (the <userinput>cd $LFS/bin</userinput> and
<userinput>ln -s bash sh</userinput> commands) because they won't be
executed when the error occurs.
</para>

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