%general-entities; ]> Bash &bash-version; The Bash package contains the Bourne-Again SHell. The following patch contains updates from the maintainer. The maintainer of Bash only releases these patches to fix serious issues: patch -Np1 -i ../&bash-branch_update-patch; The following sed points configure towards the correct library directory while searching for Readline: sed -i "/ac_cv_rl_libdir/s@/lib@&64@" configure Prepare Bash for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin \ --without-bash-malloc --with-installed-readline \ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/bash-&bash-version; CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" CXX="g++ ${BUILD64}" \ ./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin \ --without-bash-malloc --with-installed-readline \ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/bash-&bash-version; Compile the package: make To test the results, issue: make tests. Install the package: make install Run the newly compiled bash program (replacing the one that is currently being executed): exec /bin/bash --login +h The parameters used make the bash process an interactive login shell and continue to disable hashing so that new programs are found as they become available. bash 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 bashbug A shell script to help the user compose and mail standard formatted bug reports concerning bash sh A symlink to the bash program; when invoked as sh, bash tries to mimic the startup behavior of historical versions of sh as closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as well