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1 files changed, 31 insertions, 14 deletions
@@ -191,13 +191,14 @@ the Bash `configure' recognizes. Define if you are using the Andrew File System from Transarc. `--with-bash-malloc' - Use the Bash version of `malloc' in `lib/malloc/malloc.c'. This - is not the same `malloc' that appears in GNU libc, but an older - version derived from the 4.2 BSD `malloc'. This `malloc' is very - fast, but wastes some space on each allocation. This option is - enabled by default. The `NOTES' file contains a list of systems - for which this should be turned off, and `configure' disables this - option automatically for a number of systems. + Use the Bash version of `malloc' in the directory `lib/malloc'. + This is not the same `malloc' that appears in GNU libc, but an + older version originally derived from the 4.2 BSD `malloc'. This + `malloc' is very fast, but wastes some space on each allocation. + This option is enabled by default. The `NOTES' file contains a + list of systems for which this should be turned off, and + `configure' disables this option automatically for a number of + systems. `--with-curses' Use the curses library instead of the termcap library. This should @@ -210,7 +211,7 @@ the Bash `configure' recognizes. `--with-installed-readline[=PREFIX]' Define this to make Bash link with a locally-installed version of Readline rather than the version in `lib/readline'. This works - only with Readline 4.3 and later versions. If PREFIX is `yes' or + only with Readline 5.0 and later versions. If PREFIX is `yes' or not supplied, `configure' uses the values of the make variables `includedir' and `libdir', which are subdirectories of `prefix' by default, to find the installed version of Readline if it is not in @@ -291,6 +292,9 @@ does not provide the necessary support. `=~' binary operator in the `[[' conditional command. (*note Conditional Constructs::). +`--enable-debugger' + Include support for the bash debugger (distributed separately). + `--enable-directory-stack' Include support for a `csh'-like directory stack and the `pushd', `popd', and `dirs' builtins (*note The Directory Stack::). @@ -334,17 +338,17 @@ does not provide the necessary support. This enables process substitution (*note Process Substitution::) if the operating system provides the necessary support. +`--enable-progcomp' + Enable the programmable completion facilities (*note Programmable + Completion::). If Readline is not enabled, this option has no + effect. + `--enable-prompt-string-decoding' Turn on the interpretation of a number of backslash-escaped characters in the `$PS1', `$PS2', `$PS3', and `$PS4' prompt strings. See *Note Printing a Prompt::, for a complete list of prompt string escape sequences. -`--enable-progcomp' - Enable the programmable completion facilities (*note Programmable - Completion::). If Readline is not enabled, this option has no - effect. - `--enable-readline' Include support for command-line editing and history with the Bash version of the Readline library (*note Command Line Editing::). @@ -358,6 +362,19 @@ does not provide the necessary support. Include the `select' builtin, which allows the generation of simple menus (*note Conditional Constructs::). +`--enable-separate-helpfiles' + Use external files for the documentation displayed by the `help' + builtin instead of storing the text internally. + +`--enable-single-help-strings' + Store the text displayed by the `help' builtin as a single string + for each help topic. This aids in translating the text to + different languages. You may need to disable this if your + compiler cannot handle very long string literals. + +`--enable-strict-posix-default' + Make Bash POSIX-conformant by default (*note Bash POSIX Mode::). + `--enable-usg-echo-default' A synonym for `--enable-xpg-echo-default'. @@ -366,7 +383,7 @@ does not provide the necessary support. default, without requiring the `-e' option. This sets the default value of the `xpg_echo' shell option to `on', which makes the Bash `echo' behave more like the version specified in the Single Unix - Specification, version 2. *Note Bash Builtins::, for a + Specification, version 3. *Note Bash Builtins::, for a description of the escape sequences that `echo' recognizes. The file `config-top.h' contains C Preprocessor `#define' statements |