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
`--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 4.2 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
Enable support for large files
(http://www.sas.com/standards/large_file/x_open.20Mar96.html) if
the operating system requires special compiler options to build
- programs which can access large files.
+ programs which can access large files. This is enabled by
+ default, if the operating system provides large file support.
`--enable-profiling'
This builds a Bash binary that produces profiling information to be
`--enable-brace-expansion'
Include `csh'-like brace expansion ( `b{a,b}c' ==> `bac bbc' ).
- See *Note Brace Expansion::, for a complete description.
+ See *note Brace Expansion::, for a complete description.
+
+`--enable-casemod-attributes'
+ Include support for case-modifying attributes in the `declare'
+ builtin and assignment statements. Variables with the UPPERCASE
+ attribute, for example, will have their values converted to
+ uppercase upon assignment.
+
+`--enable-casemod-expansion'
+ Include support for case-modifying word expansions.
`--enable-command-timing'
Include support for recognizing `time' as a reserved word and for
builtins and functions to be timed.
`--enable-cond-command'
- Include support for the `[[' conditional command (*note
+ Include support for the `[[' conditional command. (*note
+ Conditional Constructs::).
+
+`--enable-cond-regexp'
+ Include support for matching POSIX regular expressions using the
+ `=~' binary operator in the `[[' conditional command. (*note
Conditional Constructs::).
+`--enable-coprocesses'
+ Include support for coprocesses and the `coproc' reserved word
+ (*note Pipelines::).
+
+`--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::).
`--enable-disabled-builtins'
Allow builtin commands to be invoked via `builtin xxx' even after
- `xxx' has been disabled using `enable -n xxx'. See *Note Bash
+ `xxx' has been disabled using `enable -n xxx'. See *note Bash
Builtins::, for details of the `builtin' and `enable' builtin
commands.
`--enable-extended-glob'
Include support for the extended pattern matching features
- described above under *Note Pattern Matching::.
+ described above under *note Pattern Matching::.
+
+`--enable-extended-glob-default'
+ Set the default value of the EXTGLOB shell option described above
+ under *note The Shopt Builtin:: to be enabled.
`--enable-help-builtin'
Include the `help' builtin, which displays help on shell builtins
This enables the job control features (*note Job Control::), if
the operating system supports them.
+`--enable-multibyte'
+ This enables support for multibyte characters if the operating
+ system provides the necessary support.
+
`--enable-net-redirections'
This enables the special handling of filenames of the form
`/dev/tcp/HOST/PORT' and `/dev/udp/HOST/PORT' when used in
This enables process substitution (*note Process Substitution::) if
the operating system provides the necessary support.
-`--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-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-readline'
Include support for command-line editing and history with the Bash
version of the Readline library (*note Command Line Editing::).
`--enable-restricted'
Include support for a "restricted shell". If this is enabled,
- Bash, when called as `rbash', enters a restricted mode. See *Note
+ Bash, when called as `rbash', enters a restricted mode. See *note
The Restricted Shell::, for a description of restricted mode.
`--enable-select'
- Include the `select' builtin, which allows the generation of simple
- menus (*note Conditional Constructs::).
+ Include the `select' compound command, 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'.
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
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