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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    <para os="a">If you downloaded the Bash documentation tarball and wish to
28    install HTML documentation, issue the following command:</para>
29
30<screen os="b"><userinput>tar -xvf ../bash-doc-&bash-doc-version;.tar.gz</userinput></screen>
31
32    <para os="p1">The following patch contains updates from the maintainer. The
33    maintainer of Bash only releases these patches to fix serious issues:</para>
34
35<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&bash-branch_update-patch;</userinput></screen>
36
37    <para os="p3">The following patch contains fixes that affect a CLFS system. These are
38    validated issues by the CLFS developers:</para>
39
40<screen os="p4"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&bash-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
41
42    <para os="g">Prepare Bash for compilation:</para>
43
44<screen os="h"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin \
45    --without-bash-malloc --with-installed-readline</userinput></screen>
46
47    <variablelist os="i">
48      <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
49
50      <varlistentry>
51        <term><parameter>--with-installed-readline</parameter></term>
52        <listitem>
53          <para>This option tells Bash to use the
54          <filename class="libraryfile">readline</filename> library that is
55          already installed on the system rather than using its own readline
56          version.</para>
57        </listitem>
58      </varlistentry>
59    </variablelist>
60
61    <para os="j">Compile the package:</para>
62
63<screen os="k"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
64
65    <para os="l">To test the results, issue:
66    <userinput>make tests</userinput>.</para>
67
68    <para os="m">Install the package:</para>
69
70<screen os="n"><userinput>make htmldir=/usr/share/doc/bash-&bash-version; install</userinput></screen>
71
72    <para os="o">Run the newly compiled <command>bash</command> program (replacing
73    the one that is currently being executed):</para>
74
75<screen os="p" role="nodump"><userinput>exec /bin/bash --login +h</userinput></screen>
76
77    <note os="q">
78      <para>The parameters used make the <command>bash</command>
79      process an interactive login shell and continue to disable hashing so
80      that new programs are found as they become available.</para>
81    </note>
82
83  </sect2>
84
85  <sect2 id="contents-bash" role="content">
86    <title>Contents of Bash</title>
87
88    <segmentedlist>
89      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
90
91      <seglistitem>
92        <seg>bash, bashbug, and sh (link to bash)</seg>
93      </seglistitem>
94    </segmentedlist>
95
96    <variablelist>
97      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
98      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
99      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
100
101      <varlistentry id="bash">
102        <term><command>bash</command></term>
103        <listitem>
104          <para>A widely-used command interpreter; it performs many types of
105          expansions and substitutions on a given command line before executing
106          it, thus making this interpreter a powerful tool</para>
107          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bash">
108            <primary sortas="b-bash">bash</primary>
109          </indexterm>
110        </listitem>
111      </varlistentry>
112
113      <varlistentry id="bashbug">
114        <term><command>bashbug</command></term>
115        <listitem>
116          <para>A shell script to help the user compose and mail standard
117          formatted bug reports concerning <command>bash</command></para>
118          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bashbug">
119            <primary sortas="b-bashbug">bashbug</primary>
120          </indexterm>
121        </listitem>
122      </varlistentry>
123
124      <varlistentry id="sh">
125        <term><command>sh</command></term>
126        <listitem>
127          <para>A symlink to the <command>bash</command> program; when invoked
128          as <command>sh</command>, <command>bash</command> tries to mimic the
129          startup behavior of historical versions of <command>sh</command> as
130          closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as
131          well</para>
132          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash sh">
133            <primary sortas="b-sh">sh</primary>
134          </indexterm>
135        </listitem>
136      </varlistentry>
137
138    </variablelist>
139
140  </sect2>
141
142</sect1>
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