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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  </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 commands:</para>
29
30<screen os="b"><userinput>tar -xvf ../bash-doc-&bash-doc-version;.tar.gz
31cp Makefile.in{,.orig}
32sed "s|htmldir = @htmldir@|htmldir = /usr/share/doc/bash-&bash-version;|" \
33    Makefile.in.orig &gt; Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
34
35    <para os="p1">The following patch contains updates from the maintainer. The
36    maintainer of Bash only releases these patches to fix serious issues.</para>
37
38<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&bash-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
39
40    <para os="c">Create a config.cache containing information that is not
41    properly detected when cross compiling:</para>
42
43<screen os="d"><userinput>echo "ac_cv_func_setvbuf_reversed=no" &gt; config.cache
44echo "bash_cv_sys_named_pipes=yes" &gt;&gt; config.cache</userinput></screen>
45
46    <variablelist>
47      <varlistentry>
48        <term><parameter>bash_cv_sys_named_pipes=yes</parameter></term>
49        <listitem>
50          <para>When bash is cross-compiled, it cannot test for the presence
51          of named pipes. If you used <command>su</command> to become an
52          unprivileged user, this combination will cause Bash to build without
53          <emphasis>process substitution</emphasis></para>
54        </listitem>
55      </varlistentry>
56    </variablelist>
57
58    <para os="e">Prepare Bash for compilation:</para>
59
60<screen os="f"><userinput>./configure --build=${CLFS_HOST} --host=${CLFS_TARGET} \
61    --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --cache-file=config.cache \
62    --without-bash-malloc --with-installed-readline</userinput></screen>
63
64    <variablelist os="g">
65      <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
66
67      <varlistentry>
68        <term><parameter>--with-installed-readline</parameter></term>
69        <listitem>
70          <para>This option tells Bash to use the
71          <filename class="libraryfile">readline</filename> library that is
72          already installed on the system rather than using its own readline
73          version.</para>
74        </listitem>
75      </varlistentry>
76    </variablelist>
77
78    <para os="h">Compile the package:</para>
79
80<screen os="i"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
81
82    <para os="j">Install the package:</para>
83
84<screen os="k"><userinput>make DESTDIR=${CLFS} install</userinput></screen>
85
86    <para os="l">Create /bin/sh:</para>
87
88<screen os="m"><userinput>ln -sv bash ${CLFS}/bin/sh</userinput></screen>
89
90  </sect2>
91
92  <sect2 id="contents-bash" role="content">
93    <title>Contents of Bash</title>
94
95    <segmentedlist>
96      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
97
98      <seglistitem>
99        <seg>bash, bashbug, and sh (link to bash)</seg>
100      </seglistitem>
101    </segmentedlist>
102
103    <variablelist>
104      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
105      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
106      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
107
108      <varlistentry id="bash">
109        <term><command>bash</command></term>
110        <listitem>
111          <para>A widely-used command interpreter; it performs many types of
112          expansions and substitutions on a given command line before executing
113          it, thus making this interpreter a powerful tool</para>
114          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bash">
115            <primary sortas="b-bash">bash</primary>
116          </indexterm>
117        </listitem>
118      </varlistentry>
119
120      <varlistentry id="bashbug">
121        <term><command>bashbug</command></term>
122        <listitem>
123          <para>A shell script to help the user compose and mail standard
124          formatted bug reports concerning <command>bash</command></para>
125          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bashbug">
126            <primary sortas="b-bashbug">bashbug</primary>
127          </indexterm>
128        </listitem>
129      </varlistentry>
130
131      <varlistentry id="sh">
132        <term><command>sh</command></term>
133        <listitem>
134          <para>A symlink to the <command>bash</command> program; when invoked
135          as <command>sh</command>, <command>bash</command> tries to mimic the
136          startup behavior of historical versions of <command>sh</command> as
137          closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as
138          well</para>
139          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash sh">
140            <primary sortas="b-sh">sh</primary>
141          </indexterm>
142        </listitem>
143      </varlistentry>
144
145    </variablelist>
146
147  </sect2>
148
149</sect1>
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