10 Installing Bash ****************** This chapter provides basic instructions for installing Bash on the various supported platforms. The distribution supports the GNU operating systems, nearly every version of Unix, and several non-Unix systems such as BeOS and Interix. Other independent ports exist for MS-DOS, OS/2, and Windows platforms.
· Basic Installation Installation instructions. · Compilers and Options How to set special options for various systems. · Compiling For Multiple Architectures How to compile Bash for more than one kind of system from the same source tree. · Installation Names How to set the various paths used by the installation. · Specifying the System Type How to configure Bash for a particular system. · Sharing Defaults How to share default configuration values among GNU programs. · Operation Controls Options recognized by the configuration program. · Optional Features How to enable and disable optional features when building Bash.