Installation of Bash Install Bash by running the following commands:
./configure --enable-static-link --prefix=$LFS/usr \    --bindir=$LFS/bin --with-curses && make && make install && cd $LFS/bin && ln -s bash sh
If the make install phase ends with something along the lines of
install-info: unknown option `--dir-file=/mnt/lfs/usr/info/dir' usage: install-info [--version] [--help] [--debug] [--maxwidth=nnn] [--section regexp title] [--infodir=xxx] [--align=nnn] [--calign=nnn] [--quiet] [--menuentry=xxx] [--info-dir=xxx] [--keep-old] [--description=xxx] [--test] [--remove] [--] filename make[1]: *** [install] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/usr/src/bash-2.04/doc' make: [install] Error 2 (ignored)
then that means that you are probably using Debian, and that you have an old version of the texinfo package. This error is not severe by any means: the info pages will be installed when we recompile bash dynamically in chapter 6.