8.37.1. Installation of Bash
Prepare Bash for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--without-bash-malloc \
--with-installed-readline \
bash_cv_strtold_broken=no \
--docdir=/usr/share/doc/bash-5.2.37
The meaning of the new configure option:
-
--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