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Updated bash documentation installation

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5  %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-bash" role="wrap">
9  <?dbhtml filename="bash.html"?>
10
11  <title>Bash-&bash-version;</title>
12
13  <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash">
14    <primary sortas="a-Bash">Bash</primary>
15  </indexterm>
16
17  <sect2 role="package">
18    <title/>
19
20    <para>The Bash package contains the Bourne-Again SHell.</para>
21
22  </sect2>
23
24  <sect2 role="installation">
25    <title>Installation of Bash</title>
26
27<!-- Bash branch update area
28    <para os="p1">The following patch contains updates from the maintainer. The
29    maintainer of Bash only releases these patches to fix serious issues:</para>
30
31<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&bash-branch_update-patch;</userinput></screen>
32-->
33
34    <para os="a">Prepare Bash for compilation:</para>
35
36<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin \
37    --without-bash-malloc --with-installed-readline \
38    --docdir=/usr/share/doc/bash-&bash-version;</userinput></screen>
39
40    <variablelist os="c">
41      <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
42
43      <varlistentry>
44        <term><parameter>--with-installed-readline</parameter></term>
45        <listitem>
46          <para>This option tells Bash to use the
47          <filename class="libraryfile">readline</filename> library that is
48          already installed on the system rather than using its own readline
49          version.</para>
50        </listitem>
51      </varlistentry>
52    </variablelist>
53
54    <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
55
56<screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
57
58    <para os="f">To test the results, issue:</para>
59
60<screen os="f2"><userinput remap="test">make tests</userinput></screen>
61
62    <para os="g">Install the package:</para>
63
64<screen os="h"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
65
66    <para os="i">Run the newly compiled <command>bash</command> program (replacing
67    the one that is currently being executed):</para>
68
69<screen os="j" role="nodump"><userinput>exec /bin/bash --login +h</userinput></screen>
70
71    <note os="k">
72      <para>The parameters used make the <command>bash</command>
73      process an interactive login shell and continue to disable hashing so
74      that new programs are found as they become available.</para>
75    </note>
76
77  </sect2>
78
79  <sect2 id="contents-bash" role="content">
80    <title>Contents of Bash</title>
81
82    <segmentedlist>
83      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
84      <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
85
86      <seglistitem>
87        <seg>bash, bashbug, and sh (link to bash)</seg>
88        <seg>/usr/share/doc/bash-&bash-version;</seg>
89      </seglistitem>
90    </segmentedlist>
91
92    <variablelist>
93      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
94      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
95      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
96
97      <varlistentry id="bash">
98        <term><command>bash</command></term>
99        <listitem>
100          <para>A widely-used command interpreter; it performs many types of
101          expansions and substitutions on a given command line before executing
102          it, thus making this interpreter a powerful tool</para>
103          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bash">
104            <primary sortas="b-bash">bash</primary>
105          </indexterm>
106        </listitem>
107      </varlistentry>
108
109      <varlistentry id="bashbug">
110        <term><command>bashbug</command></term>
111        <listitem>
112          <para>A shell script to help the user compose and mail standard
113          formatted bug reports concerning <command>bash</command></para>
114          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bashbug">
115            <primary sortas="b-bashbug">bashbug</primary>
116          </indexterm>
117        </listitem>
118      </varlistentry>
119
120      <varlistentry id="sh">
121        <term><command>sh</command></term>
122        <listitem>
123          <para>A symlink to the <command>bash</command> program; when invoked
124          as <command>sh</command>, <command>bash</command> tries to mimic the
125          startup behavior of historical versions of <command>sh</command> as
126          closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as
127          well</para>
128          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash sh">
129            <primary sortas="b-sh">sh</primary>
130          </indexterm>
131        </listitem>
132      </varlistentry>
133
134    </variablelist>
135
136  </sect2>
137
138</sect1>
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