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Bash First, fix some issues identified upstream: patch -Np1 -i ../&bash-upstream-fixes-patch; Prepare Bash for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --without-bash-malloc \ --with-installed-readline \ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/bash-&bash-version; --with-installed-readline This option tells Bash to use the readline library that is already installed on the system rather than using its own readline version. Compile the package: make Skip down to Install the package if not running the test suite. To prepare the tests, ensure that the tester user can write to the sources tree: chown -R tester . The test suite of this package is designed to be run as a non-&root; user who owns the terminal connected to standard input. To satisfy the requirement, spawn a new pseudo terminal using Expect and run the tests as the tester user: su -s /usr/bin/expect tester << "EOF" set timeout -1 spawn make tests expect eof lassign [wait] _ _ _ value exit $value EOF The test suite uses diff to detect the difference between test script output and the expected output. Any output from diff (prefixed with < and >) indicates a test failure, unless there is a message saying the difference can be ignored. One test named run-builtins is known to fail on some host distros with a difference on the first line of the output. Install the package: make install Run the newly compiled bash program (replacing the one that is currently being executed): exec /usr/bin/bash --login Installed programs Installed directory bash, bashbug, and sh (link to bash) /usr/include/bash, /usr/lib/bash, and /usr/share/doc/bash-&bash-version; Short Descriptions bash A widely-used command interpreter; it performs many types of expansions and substitutions on a given command line before executing it, thus making this interpreter a powerful tool bash bashbug A shell script to help the user compose and mail standard formatted bug reports concerning bash bashbug sh A symlink to the bash program; when invoked as sh, bash tries to mimic the startup behavior of historical versions of sh as closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as well sh