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--- a/chapter06/bash.xml
+++ b/chapter06/bash.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
%general-entities;
]>
-<sect1 id="ch-system-bash" role="wrap">
+<sect1 id="ch-tools-bash" role="wrap">
<?dbhtml filename="bash.html"?>
<sect1info condition="script">
@@ -16,22 +16,25 @@
<title>Bash-&bash-version;</title>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash">
+ <indexterm zone="ch-tools-bash">
<primary sortas="a-Bash">Bash</primary>
+ <secondary>tools</secondary>
</indexterm>
<sect2 role="package">
<title/>
- <para>The Bash package contains the Bourne-Again SHell.</para>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+ href="../chapter08/bash.xml"
+ xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
- <seg>&bash-ch6-sbu;</seg>
- <seg>&bash-ch6-du;</seg>
+ <seg>&bash-ch5-sbu;</seg>
+ <seg>&bash-ch5-du;</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
@@ -40,27 +43,24 @@
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Bash</title>
- <para>Incorporate some upstream fixes:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&bash-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
-
<para>Prepare Bash for compilation:</para>
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr \
- --docdir=/usr/share/doc/bash-&bash-version; \
- --without-bash-malloc \
- --with-installed-readline</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr \
+ --build=$(support/config.guess) \
+ --host=$LFS_TGT \
+ --without-bash-malloc</userinput></screen>
<variablelist>
- <title>The meaning of the new configure option:</title>
+ <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
<varlistentry>
- <term><parameter>--with-installed-readline</parameter></term>
+ <term><parameter>--without-bash-malloc</parameter></term>
<listitem>
- <para>This option tells Bash to use the <filename
- class="libraryfile">readline</filename> library that is already
- installed on the system rather than using its own readline
- version.</para>
+ <para>This option turns off the use of Bash's memory allocation
+ (<function>malloc</function>) function which is known to cause
+ segmentation faults. By turning this option off, Bash will use
+ the <function>malloc</function> functions from Glibc which are
+ more stable.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -70,103 +70,26 @@
<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
- <para>Skip down to <quote>Install the
- package</quote> if not running the test suite.</para>
-
- <para>To prepare the tests, ensure that the <systemitem class="username">tester</systemitem> user can write to the sources tree:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="test">chown -Rv tester .</userinput></screen>
+ <para>Install the package:</para>
- <para>Now, run the tests as the <systemitem
- class="username">tester</systemitem> user:</para>
+<screen><userinput remap="install">make DESTDIR=$LFS install</userinput></screen>
-<screen><userinput remap="test">su tester &lt;&lt; EOF
-PATH=$PATH make tests &lt; $(tty)
-EOF</userinput></screen>
-<!--
- <para>The <systemitem class="username">tester</systemitem>
- user does not have enough permissions for all the tests to pass. This shows
- up in some <quote>diff</quote> output in four test results. Portions of the
- run-execscript, run-lastpipe, run-read, and run-test programs
- are known to fail in the LFS chroot environment, but pass if the tests
- are run in a full system.</para>
--->
- <para>Install the package and move the main executable to
- <filename class='directory'>/bin</filename>:</para>
+ <para>Move the excutable to where it is expected to be:</para>
-<screen><userinput remap="install">make install
-mv -vf /usr/bin/bash /bin</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="install">mv $LFS/usr/bin/bash $LFS/bin/bash</userinput></screen>
- <para>Run the newly compiled <command>bash</command> program (replacing the one that is
- currently being executed):</para>
+ <para>Make a link for the programs that use <command>sh</command> for
+ a shell:</para>
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>exec /bin/bash --login +h</userinput></screen>
-
- <note>
- <para>The parameters used make the <command>bash</command>
- process an interactive login shell and continue to disable hashing so
- that new programs are found as they become available.</para>
- </note>
+<screen><userinput remap="install">ln -sv bash $LFS/bin/sh</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
- <sect2 id="contents-bash" role="content">
- <title>Contents of Bash</title>
-
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
- <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
-
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>bash, bashbug, and sh (link to bash)</seg>
- <seg>/usr/include/bash, /usr/lib/bash, and
- /usr/share/doc/bash-&bash-version;</seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
-
- <variablelist>
- <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
- <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
- <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
-
- <varlistentry id="bash">
- <term><command>bash</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A widely-used command interpreter; it performs many types 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 bash">
- <primary sortas="b-bash">bash</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="bashbug">
- <term><command>bashbug</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A shell script to help the user compose and mail standard
- formatted bug reports concerning <command>bash</command></para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bashbug">
- <primary sortas="b-bashbug">bashbug</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="sh">
- <term><command>sh</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A symlink to the <command>bash</command> program; when invoked
- as <command>sh</command>, <command>bash</command> tries to mimic the
- startup behavior of historical versions of <command>sh</command> as
- closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as
- well</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash sh">
- <primary sortas="b-sh">sh</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
+ <sect2 role="content">
+ <title/>
- </variablelist>
+ <para>Details on this package are located in
+ <xref linkend="contents-bash" role="."/></para>
</sect2>