BOOK/chapter06/bash.xml

   1 <sect1 id="ch-system-bash" xreflabel="Bash">
   2 <title>Installing Bash-&bash-version;</title>
   3 <?dbhtml filename="bash.html" dir="chapter06"?>
   4
   5 <para>The Bash package contains the Bourne-Again SHell.</para>
   6
   7 <screen>&buildtime; &bash-time;
   8 &diskspace; &bash-compsize;</screen>
   9
  10 &aa-bash-down;
  11 &aa-bash-dep;
  12
  13 <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
  14
  15 <sect2>
  16 <title>Installation of Bash</title>
  17
  18 <para>Bash has a number of bugs in it that cause it to not behave the
  19 way it is expected at times. Fix this behaviour with the following
  20 patch:</para>
  21
  22 <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&bash-patch;</userinput></screen>
  23
  24 <para>Now prepare Bash for compilation:</para>
  25
  26 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin</userinput></screen>
  27
  28 <para>Compile the package:</para>
  29
  30 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
  31
  32 <para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
  33 checks to ensure it built correctly.  Should you choose to run it, the
  34 following command will do so:</para>
  35
  36 <screen><userinput>make tests</userinput></screen>
  37
  38 <para>Install the package:</para>
  39
  40 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
  41
  42 <para>And reload the newly compiled <command>bash</command> program:</para>
  43
  44 <screen><userinput>exec /bin/bash --login +h</userinput></screen>
  45
  46 </sect2>
  47
  48 &aa-bash-shortdesc;
  49 &aa-bash-desc;
  50
  51 </sect1>
  52