lfs-book/chapter06/bash-inst.xml

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<title>Installation of Bash</title>

<para>Bash has different default behavior when called as an interactive and
a non-interactive shell.  It is possible to change this by opening the config-top.h file and commenting out the line:</para>

<para><filename>#define NON_INTERACTIVE_LOGIN_SHELLS</filename></para>

<para>Bash has a number of bugs in it that cause it to not behave the 
way it is expected at times. Fix this behaviour with the following
patch:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../bash-&bash-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>

<para>Prepare Bash for compilation:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin</userinput></screen></para>

<para>Compile the package:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>

<para>Test the results:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>make tests</userinput></screen></para>

<para>Install the package:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>

<para>And reload the newly compiled <userinput>bash</userinput> program:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>exec /bin/bash --login
set +h</userinput></screen></para>

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