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<sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Installation of Bash</title>
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<para>Before you attempt to install Bash, you have to check to make sure
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your distribution has the <filename>/usr/lib/libcurses.a</filename> and
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<filename>/usr/lib/libncurses.a</filename> files. If your host
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distribution is an LFS system, all files will be present if you followed
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the instructions of the book version you read exactly.</para>
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<para>If both of the files are missing, you have to install the Ncurses
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development package. This package is often called something like
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<emphasis>ncurses-dev</emphasis> or <emphasis>ncurses-static</emphasis>. If
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this package is already installed, or you just installed it, check for the
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two files again. Often the <filename>libcurses.a</filename> file is (still)
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missing. If so, create <filename>libcurses.a</filename> as a symlink
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by running the following commands as user <emphasis>root:</emphasis></para>
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<para><screen><userinput>ln -s libncurses.a /usr/lib/libcurses.a</userinput></screen></para>
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<para>Now we can really start. Prepare Bash to be compiled by running the
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following command:</para>
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<para><screen><userinput>./configure --enable-static-link \
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--prefix=$LFS/static --with-curses</userinput></screen></para>
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<para>The meaning of the configure options are:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para><userinput>--enable-static-link:</userinput> This option
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caused the <userinput>bash</userinput> program to be statically
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linked.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><userinput>--prefix=$LFS/static</userinput> This option
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installs all of Bash's files under the $LFS/static directory, which becomes
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the /static directory when chroot'ed or reboot'ed into
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LFS.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><userinput>--with-curses:</userinput> This option caused
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bash to be linked against the curses library instead of the default termcap
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library which is being phased out and has become obsolete. Note, on most
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all Linux systems, the curses library is provided by the Ncurses
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package (so in truth we link against the ncurses library).</para>
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<para>It is not strictly necessary for the static bash to be linked
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against libncurses (it can link against a static termcap for the time
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being just fine because we will reinstall Bash in Chapter 6 anyways,
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where we will use libncurses), but it's a good test to make sure that
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the Ncurses package has been installed properly. If not, you will get in
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trouble later on in this chapter when you install the Texinfo package.
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That package requires ncurses, and termcap can't reliably be used
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there.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Now we can continue compiling Bash:</para>
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<para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
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<para>And finish off the installation by installing Bash:</para>
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<para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
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<para>If the <userinput>make install</userinput> phase ends with something
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along the lines of the following:</para>
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<blockquote><screen>install-info: unknown option `--dir-file=/mnt/lfs/usr/info/dir'
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usage: install-info [--version] [--help] [--debug] [--maxwidth=nnn]
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[--section regexp title] [--infodir=xxx] [--align=nnn]
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[--calign=nnn] [--quiet] [--menuentry=xxx]
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[--info-dir=xxx]
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[--keep-old] [--description=xxx] [--test]
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[--remove] [--] filename
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make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
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make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/usr/src/bash-&bash-version;/doc'
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make: [install] Error 2 (ignored)</screen></blockquote>
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<para>then that means that you are probably using Debian-2.2 (potato), and
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that you have an old version of the texinfo package and the info pages
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can't be installed at this time. This error is not a problem as the info
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pages will be installed when we recompile bash dynamically in Chapter 6, so
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you can ignore it. It is reported that the current release of Debian
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(3.0; also known as Woody) doesn't have this problem.</para>
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</sect2>
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