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