*- On 4 Oct, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote about "Shell bash" > Hello, > > In my work in have to use some machines where the bash shell is not > available. Normally, these machine have Solaris or IRIX installed. When > I connect to those machines I have to use other different shells which I > am not used to using. You can imagine how embarrasing is this > situation. > > I have though of compiling the bash shell for those machines and > installing it in my $HOME directory. How can I do this? Where can I > download the sources of the bash shell? >
You could download the upstream source from the debian source archives, it should be in the form of bash*.orig.tar.gz or from its home site at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/. Unpack it on our Solaris machine and read the INSTALL file in the extracted directory. It is set up with autoconf(make sure your system has autoconf installed, it is a gnu package as well) so you should be able to just do ./configure --prefix=~/<bash root> make make install Where ~/<bash root> is the directory under your home directory where you want the binaries and all the docs installed. If all you want is the binary skip the make install and just copy the bash binary to your bin directory. -- Brian Servis ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
