Installation of Bash Before you attempt to install Bash, you have to check to make sure your distribution has the /usr/lib/libcurses.a and /usr/lib/libncurses.a files. If your host distribution is an LFS system, all files will be present if you followed the instructions of the book version you read exactly. If both of the files are missing, you have to install the Ncurses development package. This package is often called something like ncurses-dev or ncurses-static. If this package is already installed, or you just installed it, check for the two files again. Often the libcurses.a file is (still) missing. If so, then create libcurses.a as a symlink by running the following commands as user root: ln -s libncurses.a /usr/lib/libcurses.a Now we can continue. Install Bash by running the following commands: ./configure --enable-static-link \     --prefix=$LFS/static --with-curses && make && make install If the make install phase ends with something along the lines of this:
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-&bash-version;/doc' make: [install] Error 2 (ignored)
then that means that you are probably using Debian-2.2 (potato), 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. It is reported that the current release of Debian (3.0; also known as Woody) doesn't have this problem.