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1<sect2>
2<title>Installation of Bash</title>
3
4<para>
5Install Bash by running the following commands:
6</para>
7
8<blockquote><literallayout>
9
10 <userinput>./configure --enable-static-link --prefix=$LFS/usr \</userinput>
11 <userinput>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--bindir=$LFS/bin
12 --with-curses &amp;&amp;</userinput>
13 <userinput>make &amp;&amp;</userinput>
14 <userinput>make install &amp;&amp;</userinput>
15 <userinput>cd $LFS/bin &amp;&amp;</userinput>
16 <userinput>ln -s bash sh</userinput>
17
18</literallayout></blockquote>
19
20<para>
21If you get errors when compiling bash that tell about not being able to
22find <quote>-lcurses</quote>, these two commands should be run to create the
23missing symlink:
24</para>
25
26<para>
27Note: Normally, the libncurses.a file resides in the /usr/lib directory
28but it might reside in /lib (like it does on LFS systems). Check this
29first and adjust the path in the following commands accordingly:
30</para>
31
32<blockquote><literallayout>
33
34 <userinput>cd /usr/lib &amp;&amp;</userinput>
35 <userinput>ln -s libncurses.a libcurses.a</userinput>
36
37</literallayout></blockquote>
38
39<para>
40If the make install phase ends with something along the lines of
41</para>
42
43<blockquote>
44<screen>
45install-info: unknown option `--dir-file=/mnt/lfs/usr/info/dir'
46usage: install-info [--version] [--help] [--debug] [--maxwidth=nnn]
47 [--section regexp title] [--infodir=xxx] [--align=nnn]
48 [--calign=nnn] [--quiet] [--menuentry=xxx]
49 [--info-dir=xxx]
50 [--keep-old] [--description=xxx] [--test]
51 [--remove] [--] filename
52make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
53make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/usr/src/bash-2.04/doc'
54make: [install] Error 2 (ignored)
55</screen>
56</blockquote>
57
58<para>
59then that means that you are probably using Debian, and that you have an
60old version of the texinfo package. This error is not severe by any means: the
61info pages will be installed when we recompile bash dynamically in chapter 6.
62</para>
63
64</sect2>
65
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