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. |