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diff --git a/chapter05/bash-exp.xml b/chapter05/bash-exp.xml index c4343c27d..949e22ab8 100644 --- a/chapter05/bash-exp.xml +++ b/chapter05/bash-exp.xml @@ -16,6 +16,19 @@ partition which has to be mounted at some point. Before that partition is mounted you need and will want to have bash available (it will be hard to execute the boot scripts without a shell for instance).</para> +<para><userinput>--with-curses:</userinput> This causes Bash to be +linked against the curses library instead of the default termcap +library which is becoming obsolete.</para> + +<para>It is not strictly necessary for the static bash to be linked +against libncurses (it can link against a static termap for the time +being just fine because we will reinstall Bash in chapter 6 anyways, +where we will use libncurses), but it's a good test to make sure that +the ncurses package has been installed properly. If not, you will get in +trouble later on in this chapter when you install the Texinfo package. +That package requires ncurses and termcap can't reliably be used +there.</para> + <para><userinput>ln -sf bash sh:</userinput> This command creates the sh symlink that points to bash. Most scripts run themselves via 'sh' (invoked by the #!/bin/sh as the first line in the scripts) which |