Installation of Bash
Before you attempt to install Bash, you have to check to make sure
your distribution has the /usr/lib/libcurses.a and
/usr/lib/libncurses.a files. If your host
distribution is an LFS system, all files will be present if you followed
the instructions of the book version you read exactly.
If both of the files are missing, you have to install the ncurses
development package. This package is often called something like
ncurses-dev. If this package is already installed,
or you just installed it, check for the two files again. Often the
libcurses.a file is (still) missing. If so, then
create libcurses.a as a symlink by running the
following commands:
cd /usr/lib &&
ln -s libncurses.a libcurses.a
Now we can continue. 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 -sf 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-&bash-version;/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, so you can ignore it.
When we tested it with the latest Debian version, the last two
commands were executed because the install process didn't return with a
value larger than 0. But you would do good to check if you have the
$LFS/bin/sh symlink on your LFS
partition. If not, run the last two commands manually now.