<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> %general-entities; ]> <sect1 id="ch-tools-bash" role="wrap"> <?dbhtml filename="bash.html"?> <title>Bash-&bash-version;</title> <indexterm zone="ch-tools-bash"> <primary sortas="a-Bash">Bash</primary> <secondary>tools</secondary> </indexterm> <sect2 role="package"> <title/> <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../chapter06/bash.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle> <seglistitem> <seg>&bash-ch5-sbu;</seg> <seg>&bash-ch5-du;</seg> </seglistitem> </segmentedlist> </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Bash</title> <para>Upstream developers have fixed several issues since the initial release of Bash-&bash-version;. Apply those fixes:</para> <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&bash-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen> <para>Prepare Bash for compilation:</para> <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools --without-bash-malloc</userinput></screen> <variablelist> <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title> <varlistentry> <term><parameter>--without-bash-malloc</parameter></term> <listitem> <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> </variablelist> <para>Compile the package:</para> <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen> <para>To test the results, issue: <userinput>make tests</userinput>.</para> <para>Install the package:</para> <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen> <para>Make a link for the programs that use <command>sh</command> for a shell:</para> <screen><userinput>ln -vs bash /tools/bin/sh</userinput></screen> </sect2> <sect2 role="content"> <title/> <para>Details on this package are located in <xref linkend="contents-bash" role="."/></para> </sect2> </sect1>