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Fixed Bash startup files to handle HOME and PS1.

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Greg Schafer 2003-12-12 01:43:31 +00:00
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chapter01/changelog.xml
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</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>December 11th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 5: - Setting up the
environment: Fixed Bash startup files to handle HOME and PS1.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>December 3rd, 2003 [greg]: Upgraded to Gettext-0.13,
Man-pages-1.64, Linux-2.4.23 and Psmisc-21.4.</para></listitem>

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chapter05/chapter05.xml
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<filename>.bash_profile</filename>:</para>
<screen><userinput>cat &gt; ~/.bash_profile &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput>
exec env -i TERM=$TERM /bin/bash
exec env -i HOME=$HOME TERM=$TERM PS1='\u:\w\$ ' /bin/bash
<userinput>EOF</userinput></screen>
<para>The <userinput>exec env -i TERM=$TERM /bin/bash</userinput> command
creates a new instance of Bash with a completely empty environment, except for
the TERM variable. This is needed to ensure that no unwanted and potentially
hazardous environment variables from the host system leak into our build
environment. The technique used here is a little non-standard but it achieves
the goal of enforcing a clean environment. By way of explanation, the initial
shell is a <emphasis>login</emphasis> shell which reads the
<filename>.bash_profile</filename>. The new shell instance is a
<para>The
<userinput>exec env -i HOME=$HOME TERM=$TERM PS1='\u:\w\$ ' /bin/bash</userinput>
command creates a new instance of Bash with a completely empty environment,
except for the HOME, TERM and PS1 variables. This is needed to ensure that no
unwanted and potentially hazardous environment variables from the host system
leak into our build environment. The technique used here is a little
non-standard but it achieves the goal of enforcing a clean environment. By way
of explanation, the initial shell is a <emphasis>login</emphasis> shell which
reads the <filename>.bash_profile</filename>. The new shell instance is a
<emphasis>non-login</emphasis> shell which reads the
<filename>.bashrc</filename> (created next).</para>

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"/usr/share/docbook/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY version "CVS-20031203">
<!ENTITY releasedate "December 3rd, 2003">
<!ENTITY version "CVS-20031211">
<!ENTITY releasedate "December 11th, 2003">
<!ENTITY milestone "5.1">
<!ENTITY nbsp " ">