source: final-system/common/bash.xml @ 0f06076

Last change on this file since 0f06076 was 0f06076, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r3371@server (orig r1554): chris | 2006-05-10 14:03:44 -0700
Removed dependency info from individual package instructions

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