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5.16.1. Installation of Bash
Prepare Bash for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/tools --without-bash-malloc
./configure --prefix=/tools --without-bash-malloc
The meaning of the configure options:
--without-bash-malloc
This option turns off the use of Bash's memory allocation (malloc) function which is known to cause segmentation faults. By turning this option off, Bash will use the malloc functions from Glibc which are more stable.
Compile the package:
make
make
Compilation is now complete. As discussed earlier, running the test suite is not mandatory for the temporary tools here in this chapter. To run the Bash test suite anyway, issue the following command:
make tests
make tests
Install the package:
make install
make install
Make a link for the programs that use sh for a shell:
ln -sv bash /tools/bin/sh
ln -sv bash /tools/bin/sh