Rewrote chapter 5-bash into new format

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appendixa/bash-desc.xml

@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
-<sect2><title>Contents of Bash</title>
+<sect2><title>Descriptions</title>
 
 <para>Last checked against version &bash-contversion;.</para>
 
-<sect3><title>Program Files</title>
+<sect3><title>ProgramfFiles descriptions</title>
-<para>bash, sh (link to bash) and bashbug</para></sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
 
 <sect4><title>bash</title>
 <para>bash is the Bourne-Again SHell, which is a widely used command

appendixa/bash-shortdesc.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<sect2><title>Contents of Bash</title>
+
+<para>Last checked against version &bash-contversion;.</para>
+
+<para>bash is the Bourne-Again SHell, which is a widely used command
+interpreter on Unix systems. The bash program reads from standard
+input, the keyboard. A user types something and the program will evaluate
+what he has typed and do something with it, like running a
+program.</para>
+
+<para>Bash installs the following files:</para>
+
+<sect3><title>Program Files</title>
+<para>bash, sh (link to bash) and bashbug</para></sect3>
+
+</sect2>
+

appendixa/bash.xml

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 <?dbhtml filename="bash.html" dir="appendixa"?>
 
 &aa-bash-down;
+&aa-bash-shortdesc;
 &aa-bash-desc;
 &aa-bash-dep;
 

chapter05/bash-exp.xml

@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-<sect2>
-<title>Command explanations</title>
-
-<para><userinput>--enable-static-link:</userinput> This configure 
-option causes bash to be linked statically.</para>
-
-<para><userinput>--prefix=$LFS/static:</userinput> This configure option
-installs all of Bash's files under the $LFS/static directory, which becomes
-the /static directory when chroot'ed or reboot'ed into LFS.</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 termcap 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>The <userinput>&amp;&amp;</userinput>'s at the end of every line cause 
-the next command to be executed only if the previous command exits
-with a return value of 0 indicating success. In case all of these 
-commands are copy &amp; pasted on the shell, it is important to ensure
-that if ./configure fails, make isn't executed and, likewise, if make
-fails, that make install isn't executed, and so forth.</para>
-
-</sect2>
-

chapter05/bash-inst.xml

@@ -12,21 +12,56 @@ development package. This package is often called something like
 <emphasis>ncurses-dev</emphasis> or <emphasis>ncurses-static</emphasis>. If
 this package is already installed, or you just installed it, check for the
 two files again. Often the <filename>libcurses.a</filename> file is (still)
-missing. If so, then create <filename>libcurses.a</filename> as a symlink
+missing. If so, create <filename>libcurses.a</filename> as a symlink
-by running the following commands as user root:</para>
+by running the following commands as user <emphasis>root:</emphasis></para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>ln -s libncurses.a /usr/lib/libcurses.a</userinput></screen></para>
 
-<para>Now we can continue. Install Bash by running the following 
+<para>Now we can really start. Prepare Bash to be compiled by running the
-commands:</para>
+following command:</para>
+
 
 <para><screen><userinput>./configure --enable-static-link \
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--prefix=$LFS/static --with-curses &amp;&amp;
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--prefix=$LFS/static --with-curses</userinput></screen></para>
-make &amp;&amp;
+
-make install</userinput></screen></para>
+<para>The meaning of the configure switches are:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para><userinput>--enable-static-link:</userinput> This option
+caused the <userinput>bash</userinput> program to be statically
+linked.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para><userinput>--prefix=$LFS/static</userinput> This option
+installs all of Bash's files under the $LFS/static directory, which becomes
+the /static directory when chroot'ed or reboot'ed into
+LFS.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para><userinput>--with-curses:</userinput> This option caused
+bash to be linked against the curses library instead of the default termcap
+library which is being phased out and has become obsolete. Note, on most
+all Linux systems, the curses library is provided by the Ncurses
+package (so in truth we link against the ncurses library).</para>
+
+<para>It is not strictly necessary for the static bash to be linked
+against libncurses (it can link against a static termcap 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></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<para>Now we can continue compiling Bash:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>And finish off the installation by installing Bash:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
 
 <para>If the <userinput>make install</userinput> phase ends with something
-along the lines of this:</para>
+along the lines of the following:</para>
 
 <blockquote><screen>install-info: unknown option `--dir-file=/mnt/lfs/usr/info/dir' 
 usage: install-info [--version] [--help] [--debug] [--maxwidth=nnn] 
@@ -40,11 +75,11 @@ make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/usr/src/bash-&bash-version;/doc'
 make: [install] Error 2 (ignored)</screen></blockquote>
 
 <para>then that means that you are probably using Debian-2.2 (potato), and 
-that you have an old version of the texinfo package. This error is not 
+that you have an old version of the texinfo package and the info pages
-severe by any means: the info pages will be installed when we recompile bash 
+can't be installed at this time. This error is not a problem as the info
-dynamically in Chapter 6, so you can ignore it.  It is reported that the
+pages will be installed when we recompile bash dynamically in Chapter 6, so
-current release of Debian (3.0; also known as Woody) doesn't have this
+you can ignore it.  It is reported that the current release of Debian
-problem.</para>
+(3.0; also known as Woody) doesn't have this problem.</para>
 
 </sect2>
 

chapter05/bash.xml

@@ -5,10 +5,9 @@
 <screen>Estimated build time:           &bash-time-static; 
 Estimated required disk space:  &bash-compsize-static;</screen>
 
-&c5-bash-inst;
+&aa-bash-shortdesc;
-&c5-bash-exp;
-&aa-bash-desc;
 &aa-bash-dep;
+&c5-bash-inst;
 
 </sect1>
 

chapter06/glibc.xml

@@ -2,9 +2,7 @@
 <title>Installing Glibc-&glibc-version;</title>
 <?dbhtml filename="glibc.html" dir="chapter06"?>
 
-<screen>Download location:              <ulink url="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/"/>
+<screen>Estimated build time:           &glibc-time;
-Download location (patch):      <ulink url="&http;/"/>
-Estimated build time:           &glibc-time;
 Estimated required disk space:  &glibc-compsize;</screen>
 
 &aa-glibc-shortdesc;

entities/bash.ent

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 <!ENTITY c6-bash-inst SYSTEM "../chapter06/bash-inst.xml">
 
 <!ENTITY aa-bash SYSTEM "../appendixa/bash.xml">
+<!ENTITY aa-bash-shortdesc SYSTEM "../appendixa/bash-shortdesc.xml">
 <!ENTITY aa-bash-desc SYSTEM "../appendixa/bash-desc.xml">
 <!ENTITY aa-bash-dep SYSTEM "../appendixa/bash-dep.xml">
 <!ENTITY aa-bash-down SYSTEM "../appendixa/bash-down.xml">

index.xml

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 
 <!ENTITY book SYSTEM "book/book.xml">
 
-<!ENTITY version "20030110">
+<!ENTITY version "20030111">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "January 10th, 2003">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "January 11th, 2003">
 
 <!ENTITY ftp-root "ftp://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org">
 <!ENTITY http-root "http://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org">