Changeset 5cce404

Timestamp:

09/05/2001 05:47:33 PM (23 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, v3_0, v3_1, v3_2, v3_3, v4_0, v4_1, v5_0, v5_1, v5_1_1, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

0e998ca

Parents:

a558d676

Message:

added notes to install ncurses properly on host distro (it's required
for texinfo to be compiled properly). Added --with-curses to bash's
configure again like previously done. This now functions as a test to
make sure the libraries are setup properly (ie; that symlink created and
such)

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1181 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Location:

chapter05

Files:

• bash-exp.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• bash-inst.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter05/bash-exp.xml

@@ -17 +17 @@
 execute the boot scripts without a shell for instance).</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 termap 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><userinput>ln -sf bash sh:</userinput> This command creates the sh
 symlink that points to bash. Most scripts run themselves via 'sh'

chapter05/bash-inst.xml

@@ -2 +2 @@
 <title>Installation of Bash</title>
 
-<para>Install Bash by running the following commands:</para>
+<para>Before you attempt to install Bash, you have to check to make sure
+your distribution has the <filename>/usr/lib/libcurses.a</filename> and
+<filename>/usr/lib/libncurses.a</filename> files. If both of the files
+are missing, you have to install the ncurses development package. This
+package is often call something like <emphasis>ncurses-dev</emphasis>.</para>
+
+<para>If this package is already installed, or you just did 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 by running the following commands:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>cd /usr/lib &amp;&amp;</userinput>
+<userinput>ln -s libncurses.a libcurses.a</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>Now we can continue. Install Bash by running the following 
+commands:</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>./configure --enable-static-link --prefix=$LFS/usr \</userinput>
-<userinput>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--bindir=$LFS/bin &amp;&amp;</userinput>
+<userinput>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--bindir=$LFS/bin --with-curses &amp;&amp;</userinput>
 <userinput>make &amp;&amp;</userinput>
 <userinput>make install &amp;&amp;</userinput>