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- <sect1 id="ch-system-bash" role="wrap">
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- <sect1info condition="script">
- <productname>bash</productname>
- <productnumber>&bash-version;</productnumber>
- <address>&bash-url;</address>
- </sect1info>
- <title>Bash-&bash-version;</title>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash">
- <primary sortas="a-Bash">Bash</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <sect2 role="package">
- <title/>
- <para>The Bash package contains the Bourne-Again SHell.</para>
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
- <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>&bash-ch6-sbu;</seg>
- <seg>&bash-ch6-du;</seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
- </sect2>
- <sect2 role="installation">
- <title>Installation of Bash</title>
- <para>First, apply the following patch to fix various bugs that have been
- addressed upstream:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&bash-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
- <para>Prepare Bash for compilation:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr \
- --bindir=/bin \
- --htmldir=/usr/share/doc/bash-&bash-version; \
- --without-bash-malloc \
- --with-installed-readline</userinput></screen>
- <variablelist>
- <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><parameter>--htmldir</parameter></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>This option designates the directory into which HTML formatted
- documentation will be installed.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><parameter>--with-installed-readline</parameter></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>This option tells Bash to use the <filename
- class="libraryfile">readline</filename> library that is already
- installed on the system rather than using its own readline
- version.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- <para>Compile the package:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
- <para>Skip down to <quote>Install the
- package</quote> if not running the test suite.</para>
- <para>To prepare the tests, ensure that the <systemitem class="username">nobody</systemitem> user can write to the sources tree:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="test">chown -Rv nobody .</userinput></screen>
- <para>Now, run the tests as the <systemitem
- class="username">nobody</systemitem> user:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="test">su nobody -s /bin/bash -c "PATH=$PATH make tests"</userinput></screen>
- <para>Install the package:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
- <para>Run the newly compiled <command>bash</command> program (replacing the one that is
- currently being executed):</para>
- <screen role="nodump"><userinput>exec /bin/bash --login +h</userinput></screen>
- <note>
- <para>The parameters used make the <command>bash</command>
- process an interactive login shell and continue to disable hashing so
- that new programs are found as they become available.</para>
- </note>
- </sect2>
- <sect2 id="contents-bash" role="content">
- <title>Contents of Bash</title>
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
- <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>bash, bashbug, and sh (link to bash)</seg>
- <seg>/usr/share/doc/bash-&bash-version;</seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
- <variablelist>
- <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
- <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
- <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
- <varlistentry id="bash">
- <term><command>bash</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A widely-used command interpreter; it performs many types of
- expansions and substitutions on a given command line before executing
- it, thus making this interpreter a powerful tool</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bash">
- <primary sortas="b-bash">bash</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="bashbug">
- <term><command>bashbug</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A shell script to help the user compose and mail standard
- formatted bug reports concerning <command>bash</command></para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bashbug">
- <primary sortas="b-bashbug">bashbug</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="sh">
- <term><command>sh</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A symlink to the <command>bash</command> program; when invoked
- as <command>sh</command>, <command>bash</command> tries to mimic the
- startup behavior of historical versions of <command>sh</command> as
- closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as
- well</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash sh">
- <primary sortas="b-sh">sh</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </sect2>
- </sect1>
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