Details on this package are located in Section 6.37.2, “Contents of Bash.”
The Bash package contains the Bourne-Again SHell.
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs/wiki/bash
This patch applies upstream bug fixes:
patch -Np1 -i ../bash-3.2-fixes-6.patch
Prepare Bash for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/tools --without-bash-malloc
The meaning of the configure option:
--without-bash-malloc
This options 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
Install the package:
make install
Make a link for the programs that use sh for a shell:
ln -vs bash /tools/bin/sh
Details on this package are located in Section 6.37.2, “Contents of Bash.”