source: final-system/common/bash.xml @ d5e40913

Last change on this file since d5e40913 was d5e40913, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r952@server (orig r950): jim | 2005-12-22 00:47:15 -0800

r1171@server: jim | 2005-12-22 00:36:40 -0800
Added Patch from Bash Maintainer:
001 - There are parsing problems with compound assignments in several contexts,

including as arguments to builtins like local', eval', and `let', and
as multiple assignments in a single command.



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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="p1">The following patch are updates from the maintainer. The
44    maintainer of Bash only releases these patches to fix serious issues.</para>
45
46<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&bash-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
47    <para os="g">Prepare Bash for compilation:</para>
48
49<screen os="h"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin \
50    --without-bash-malloc --with-installed-readline</userinput></screen>
51
52    <variablelist os="i">
53      <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
54
55      <varlistentry>
56        <term><parameter>--with-installed-readline</parameter></term>
57        <listitem>
58          <para>This option tells Bash to use the
59          <filename class="libraryfile">readline</filename> library that is
60          already installed on the system rather than using its own readline
61          version.</para>
62        </listitem>
63      </varlistentry>
64    </variablelist>
65
66    <para os="j">Compile the package:</para>
67
68<screen os="k"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
69
70    <para os="l">To test the results, issue:
71    <userinput>make tests</userinput>.</para>
72
73    <para os="m">Install the package:</para>
74
75<screen os="n"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
76
77    <para os="o">Run the newly compiled <command>bash</command> program (replacing
78    the one that is currently being executed):</para>
79
80<screen os="p"><userinput>exec /bin/bash --login +h</userinput></screen>
81
82    <note os="q">
83      <para>The parameters used make the <command>bash</command>
84      process an interactive login shell and continue to disable hashing so
85      that new programs are found as they become available.</para>
86    </note>
87
88  </sect2>
89
90  <sect2 id="contents-bash" role="content">
91    <title>Contents of Bash</title>
92
93    <segmentedlist>
94      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
95
96      <seglistitem>
97        <seg>bash, bashbug, and sh (link to bash)</seg>
98      </seglistitem>
99    </segmentedlist>
100
101    <variablelist>
102      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
103      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
104      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
105
106      <varlistentry id="bash">
107        <term><command>bash</command></term>
108        <listitem>
109          <para>A widely-used command interpreter; it performs many types of
110          expansions and substitutions on a given command line before executing
111          it, thus making this interpreter a powerful tool</para>
112          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bash">
113            <primary sortas="b-bash">bash</primary>
114          </indexterm>
115        </listitem>
116      </varlistentry>
117
118      <varlistentry id="bashbug">
119        <term><command>bashbug</command></term>
120        <listitem>
121          <para>A shell script to help the user compose and mail standard
122          formatted bug reports concerning <command>bash</command></para>
123          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bashbug">
124            <primary sortas="b-bashbug">bashbug</primary>
125          </indexterm>
126        </listitem>
127      </varlistentry>
128
129      <varlistentry id="sh">
130        <term><command>sh</command></term>
131        <listitem>
132          <para>A symlink to the <command>bash</command> program; when invoked
133          as <command>sh</command>, <command>bash</command> tries to mimic the
134          startup behavior of historical versions of <command>sh</command> as
135          closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as
136          well</para>
137          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash sh">
138            <primary sortas="b-sh">sh</primary>
139          </indexterm>
140        </listitem>
141      </varlistentry>
142
143    </variablelist>
144
145  </sect2>
146
147</sect1>
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