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<sect1 id="ch-system-bash" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="bash.html"?>

  <sect1info condition="script">
    <productname>bash</productname>
    <productnumber>&bash-version;</productnumber>
    <address>&bash-url;</address>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Bash-&bash-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash">
    <primary sortas="a-Bash">Bash</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>The Bash package contains the Bourne-Again Shell.</para>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&bash-fin-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&bash-fin-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Bash</title>

    <para>Prepare Bash for compilation:</para>

    <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr             \
            --without-bash-malloc     \
            --with-installed-readline \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/bash-&bash-version;</userinput></screen>

    <variablelist>
      <title>The meaning of the new configure option:</title>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--with-installed-readline</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This option tells Bash to use the <filename
          class="libraryfile">readline</filename> library that is already
          installed on the system rather than using its own readline
          version.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

    <para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>

    <para>Skip down to <quote>Install the
    package</quote> if not running the test suite.</para>

    <para>To prepare the tests, ensure that the <systemitem class="username">tester</systemitem> user can write to the sources tree:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="test">chown -Rv tester .</userinput></screen>

    <para>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
    <application>Expect</application> and run the tests as the <systemitem
    class="username">tester</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="test">su -s /usr/bin/expect tester &lt;&lt; EOF
set timeout -1
spawn make tests
expect eof
lassign [wait] _ _ _ value
exit $value
EOF</userinput></screen>

    <para>The test suite uses <command>diff</command> to detect the
    difference between test script output and the expected output.  Any
    output from <command>diff</command> (prefixed with
    <computeroutput>&lt;</computeroutput> and
    <computeroutput>&gt;</computeroutput>) indicates a test failure, unless
    there is a message saying the difference can be ignored.
    <!-- Some host distros set core file size hard limit < 1000, then the
         test "ulimit -c -S 1000" attempts to set soft limit > hard limit
         and fail.  -->
    One test named <filename>run-builtins</filename> is known to fail on
    some host distros with a difference on the first line of the
    output.</para>

    <para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>

    <para>Run the newly compiled <command>bash</command> program (replacing the one that is
    currently being executed):</para>

 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>exec /usr/bin/bash --login</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-bash" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Bash</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>bash, bashbug, and sh (link to bash)</seg>
        <seg>/usr/include/bash, /usr/lib/bash, and
        /usr/share/doc/bash-&bash-version;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="bash">
        <term><command>bash</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>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</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bash">
            <primary sortas="b-bash">bash</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="bashbug">
        <term><command>bashbug</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>A shell script to help the user compose and mail standard
          formatted bug reports concerning <command>bash</command></para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash bashbug">
            <primary sortas="b-bashbug">bashbug</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="sh">
        <term><command>sh</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>A symlink to the <command>bash</command> program; when invoked
          as <command>sh</command>, <command>bash</command> tries to mimic the
          startup behavior of historical versions of <command>sh</command> as
          closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as
          well</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bash sh">
            <primary sortas="b-sh">sh</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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