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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/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    <segmentedlist>
23      <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
24
25      <seglistitem>
26        <seg>Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make,
27        Ncurses, and Sed.</seg>
28      </seglistitem>
29    </segmentedlist>
30
31  </sect2>
32
33  <sect2 role="installation">
34    <title>Installation of Bash</title>
35
36    <para os="a">If you downloaded the Bash documentation tarball and wish to
37    install HTML documentation, issue the following commands:</para>
38
39<screen os="b"><userinput>tar -zxf ../bash-doc-&bash-doc-version;.tar.gz &amp;&amp;
40sed -i "s|htmldir = @htmldir@|htmldir = /usr/share/doc/bash-&bash-version;|" \
41    Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
42
43    <para os="c">The following patch fixes various issues, including a problem where
44    Bash will sometimes only show 33 characters on a line, then wrap to the
45    next:</para>
46
47<screen os="d"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&bash-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
48
49    <para os="e">Bash also has issues when compiled against newer versions of Glibc.
50    The following patch resolves this problem:</para>
51
52<screen os="f"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&bash-avoid_WCONTINUED-patch;</userinput></screen>
53
54    <para os="g">Prepare Bash for compilation:</para>
55
56<screen os="h"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin \
57    --without-bash-malloc --with-installed-readline</userinput></screen>
58
59    <variablelist os="i">
60      <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
61
62      <varlistentry>
63        <term><parameter>--with-installed-readline</parameter></term>
64        <listitem>
65          <para>This option tells Bash to use the
66          <filename class="libraryfile">readline</filename> library that is
67          already installed on the system rather than using its own readline
68          version.</para>
69        </listitem>
70      </varlistentry>
71    </variablelist>
72
73    <para os="j">Compile the package:</para>
74
75<screen os="k"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
76
77    <para os="l">To test the results, issue:
78    <userinput>make tests</userinput>.</para>
79
80    <para os="m">Install the package:</para>
81
82<screen os="n"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
83
84    <para os="o">Run the newly compiled <command>bash</command> program (replacing
85    the one that is currently being executed):</para>
86
87<screen os="p"><userinput>exec /bin/bash --login +h</userinput></screen>
88
89    <note os="q">
90      <para>The parameters used make the <command>bash</command>
91      process an interactive login shell and continue to disable hashing so
92      that new programs are found as they become available.</para>
93    </note>
94
95  </sect2>
96
97  <sect2 id="contents-bash" role="content">
98    <title>Contents of Bash</title>
99
100    <segmentedlist>
101      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
102
103      <seglistitem>
104        <seg>bash, bashbug, and sh (link to bash)</seg>
105      </seglistitem>
106    </segmentedlist>
107
108    <variablelist>
109      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
110      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
111      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
112
113      <varlistentry id="bash">
114        <term><command>bash</command></term>
115        <listitem>
116          <para>A widely-used command interpreter; it performs many types of
117          expansions and substitutions on a given command line before executing
118          it, thus making this interpreter a powerful tool</para>
119          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bash">
120            <primary sortas="b-bash">bash</primary>
121          </indexterm>
122        </listitem>
123      </varlistentry>
124
125      <varlistentry id="bashbug">
126        <term><command>bashbug</command></term>
127        <listitem>
128          <para>A shell script to help the user compose and mail standard
129          formatted bug reports concerning <command>bash</command></para>
130          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bashbug">
131            <primary sortas="b-bashbug">bashbug</primary>
132          </indexterm>
133        </listitem>
134      </varlistentry>
135
136      <varlistentry id="sh">
137        <term><command>sh</command></term>
138        <listitem>
139          <para>A symlink to the <command>bash</command> program; when invoked
140          as <command>sh</command>, <command>bash</command> tries to mimic the
141          startup behavior of historical versions of <command>sh</command> as
142          closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as
143          well</para>
144          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash sh">
145            <primary sortas="b-sh">sh</primary>
146          </indexterm>
147        </listitem>
148      </varlistentry>
149
150    </variablelist>
151
152  </sect2>
153
154</sect1>
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