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.