lfs-book/chapter06/bash.xml

<sect1 id="ch-system-bash" xreflabel="Bash">
<title>Installing Bash-&bash-version;</title>
<?dbhtml filename="bash.html" dir="chapter06"?>

<para>The Bash package contains the Bourne-Again SHell.</para>

<screen>&buildtime; &bash-time;
&diskspace; &bash-compsize;</screen>

&aa-bash-down;
&aa-bash-dep;

<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation of Bash</title>

<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>

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

<para>Now prepare Bash for compilation:</para>

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

<para>Compile the package:</para>

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

<para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
checks to ensure it built correctly.  Should you choose to run it, the 
following command will do so:</para>

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

<para>Install the package:</para>

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

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

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

</sect2>

&aa-bash-shortdesc;
&aa-bash-desc;

</sect1>