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author | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-05-03 10:59:46 +0000 |
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committer | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-05-03 10:59:46 +0000 |
commit | 673b0d84ba9591e07c0bdf0ee49d92eba10f502c (patch) | |
tree | 129e27a1450727b440da4378e0117a468eb9c25e /chapter06/bash.xml | |
parent | 287ea55da70ceb1f0990554b7db921d525fef816 (diff) |
* Merged newxml into HEAD
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3435 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/chapter06/bash.xml b/chapter06/bash.xml index aa38ef855..af2acf4b5 100644 --- a/chapter06/bash.xml +++ b/chapter06/bash.xml @@ -1,25 +1,32 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> +<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [ + <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> + %general-entities; +]> <sect1 id="ch-system-bash" xreflabel="Bash"> -<title>Installing Bash-&bash-version;</title> -<?dbhtml filename="bash.html" dir="chapter06"?> +<title>Bash-&bash-version;</title> +<?dbhtml filename="bash.html"?> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-bash"><primary sortas="a-Bash">Bash</primary></indexterm> <para>The Bash package contains the Bourne-Again SHell.</para> -<screen>&buildtime; &bash-time; -&diskspace; &bash-compsize;</screen> +<screen>Approximate build time: 1.2 SBU +Required disk space: 27 MB</screen> + +<para>Bash installation depends on: Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, +GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed.</para> -&aa-bash-down; -&aa-bash-dep; -<sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2> <sect2> <title>Installation of Bash</title> <para>Bash has a number of bugs in it that cause it to not behave the -way it is expected at times. Fix this behaviour with the following +way it is expected at times. Fix this behavior with the following patch:</para> -<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&bash-patch;</userinput></screen> +<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../bash-&bash-version;-2.patch</userinput></screen> <para>Now prepare Bash for compilation:</para> @@ -29,21 +36,52 @@ patch:</para> <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen> -<para>To have the results tested, issue: +<para>To test the results, issue: <userinput>make tests</userinput>.</para> <para>Install the package:</para> <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen> -<para>And reload the newly compiled <command>bash</command> program:</para> +<para>Now run the newly compiled <command>bash</command> program (replacing the one you are currently executing):</para> + +<screen><userinput>exec /bin/bash --login +h</userinput></screen> -<screen><userinput>exec /bin/bash +h</userinput></screen> +<para>Note that the parameters used make it an interactive login instance +(so /etc/profile is read, if it exists, and the first found +~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login or and ~/.profile) and continue to +disable hashing so that new programs are found as they become +available.</para> </sect2> -&aa-bash-shortdesc; -&aa-bash-desc; -</sect1> +<sect2 id="contents-bash"><title>Contents of Bash</title> + +<para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: bash, sh (link to bash) and +bashbug</para> + +</sect2> + + +<sect2><title>Short descriptions</title> +<indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bash"><primary sortas="b-bash">bash</primary></indexterm> +<para id="bash"><command>bash</command> is a widely-used command interpreter. It +performs many kinds of expansions and substitutions on a given command line +before executing it, thus making this interpreter a powerful tool.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bashbug"><primary sortas="b-bashbug">bashbug</primary></indexterm> +<para id="bashbug"><command>bashbug</command> is a shell script to help the user +compose and mail bug reports concerning bash in a standard format.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-bash sh"><primary sortas="b-sh">sh</primary></indexterm> +<para id="sh"><command>sh</command> is a symlink to the bash program. When invoked +as sh, bash tries to mimic the startup behavior of historical versions of sh as +closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as well.</para> + +</sect2> + + + +</sect1> |