| 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950 | <sect2><title>Installation of Bash</title><para>Before you attempt to install Bash, you have to check to make sureyour distribution has the <filename>/usr/lib/libcurses.a</filename> and<filename>/usr/lib/libncurses.a</filename> files. If both of the filesare missing, you have to install the ncurses development package. Thispackage is often call something like <emphasis>ncurses-dev</emphasis>.</para><para>If this package is already installed, or you just did it, checkfor the two files again. Often the <filename>libcurses.a</filename> fileis (still) missing. If so, then create <filename>libcurses.a</filename> as a symlink by running the following commands:</para><para><screen><userinput>cd /usr/lib &&</userinput><userinput>ln -s libncurses.a libcurses.a</userinput></screen></para><para>Now we can continue. Install Bash by running the following commands:</para><para><screen><userinput>./configure --enable-static-link --prefix=$LFS/usr \</userinput><userinput>   --bindir=$LFS/bin --with-curses &&</userinput><userinput>make &&</userinput><userinput>make install &&</userinput><userinput>cd $LFS/bin &&</userinput><userinput>ln -sf 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-&bash-version;/doc' make: [install] Error 2 (ignored)</screen></blockquote><para>then that means that you are probably using Debian, and that you have anold version of the texinfo package. This error is not severe by any means: theinfo pages will be installed when we recompile bash dynamically inchapter 6, so you can ignore it. You do, however, have to run the lasttwo commands manually (the <userinput>cd $LFS/bin</userinput> and<userinput>ln -sf bash sh</userinput> commands) because they won't beexecuted when the error occurs.</para></sect2>
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