| 1 | <sect2>
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| 2 | <title>Installation of Bash</title>
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| 3 |
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| 4 | <para>Before you attempt to install Bash, you have to check to make sure
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| 5 | your distribution has the <filename>/usr/lib/libcurses.a</filename> and
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| 6 | <filename>/usr/lib/libncurses.a</filename> files. If your host
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| 7 | distribution is an LFS system, all files will be present if you followed
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| 8 | the instructions of the book version you read exactly.</para>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <para>If both of the files are missing, you have to install the Ncurses
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| 11 | development package. This package is often called something like
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| 12 | <emphasis>ncurses-dev</emphasis>. If this package is already installed,
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| 13 | or you just installed it, check for the two files again. Often the
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| 14 | <filename>libcurses.a</filename> file is (still) missing. If so, then
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| 15 | create <filename>libcurses.a</filename> as a symlink by running the
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| 16 | following commands as user root:</para>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <para><screen><userinput>ln -s libncurses.a /usr/lib/libcurses.a</userinput></screen></para>
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| 19 |
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| 20 | <para>Now we can continue. Install Bash by running the following
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| 21 | commands:</para>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <para><screen><userinput>./configure --enable-static-link \
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| 24 | --prefix=$LFS/static --with-curses &&
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| 25 | make &&
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| 26 | make install</userinput></screen></para>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <para>If the <userinput>make install</userinput> phase ends with something
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| 29 | along the lines of this:</para>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <blockquote><screen>install-info: unknown option `--dir-file=/mnt/lfs/usr/info/dir'
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| 32 | usage: install-info [--version] [--help] [--debug] [--maxwidth=nnn]
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| 33 | [--section regexp title] [--infodir=xxx] [--align=nnn]
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| 34 | [--calign=nnn] [--quiet] [--menuentry=xxx]
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| 35 | [--info-dir=xxx]
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| 36 | [--keep-old] [--description=xxx] [--test]
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| 37 | [--remove] [--] filename
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| 38 | make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
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| 39 | make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/usr/src/bash-&bash-version;/doc'
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| 40 | make: [install] Error 2 (ignored)</screen></blockquote>
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| 41 |
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| 42 | <para>then that means that you are probably using Debian, and that you have an
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| 43 | old version of the texinfo package. This error is not severe by any means: the
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| 44 | info pages will be installed when we recompile bash dynamically in
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| 45 | Chapter 6, so you can ignore it.</para>
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| 46 |
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| 47 | </sect2>
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| 48 |
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