Most Android mobiles are running on the ARM architecture. Therefore you have to use a special compiler for such binaries. The Android SDK built in adb shell has no auto completion, which is really a nightmare in my opinion. Therefore I was looking for a way to compile bash for Android. Altough a lot of tutorials tell you to download the CodeSourcery cross-compiling toolchain, they are not really necessary (at least if you do a static compile like I do here).<\/p>\n
I wrote a script that compiles bash-4.0. Should work out-of-the-box in Ubuntu 11.04. Edit: By now I’ve also put it on github: https:\/\/github.com\/floyd-fuh\/ARM-cross-compile<\/a><\/p>\n By changing the variable BASH_VERSION to bash-4.1 you should be able to compile an even newer version. Bash-4.2 did not work for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most Android mobiles are running on the ARM architecture. Therefore you have to use a special compiler for such binaries. The Android SDK built in adb shell has no auto completion, which is really a nightmare in my opinion. Therefore … Continue reading \r\n#!\/bin\/bash\r\n#BASH source code from http:\/\/ftp.gnu.org\/gnu\/bash\/ \r\n#Example for compiling bash on Ubuntu 11.04\r\n#Warnings during the compilation process seem to be alright, errors would be bad\r\nBASH_VERSION="bash-4.1"\r\n\r\necho "[INFO] Checking if packages installed"\r\ndpkg --status autoconf | grep -q not-installed\r\nif [ $? -eq 0 ]; then\r\n echo "[INFO] Apt-get installing autoconf, please provide sudo password"\r\n sudo apt-get install autoconf\r\nelse\r\n echo "[INFO] autoconf already installed, good"\r\nfi\r\ndpkg --status gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi | grep -q not-installed\r\nif [ $? -eq 0 ]; then\r\n echo "[INFO] Apt-get installing gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi, please provide sudo password"\r\n sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi\r\nelse\r\n echo "[INFO] gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi already installed, good"\r\nfi\r\necho "[INFO] Starting bash source code download"\r\nwget http:\/\/ftp.gnu.org\/gnu\/bash\/$BASH_VERSION.tar.gz\r\ntar xvfz $BASH_VERSION.tar.gz\r\ncd $BASH_VERSION\r\nCC=`which arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc`\r\n.\/configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --enable-static-link --without-bash-malloc\r\nmake clean\r\nmake\r\nfile bash | grep -q ARM\r\nif [ ! $? -eq 0 ]; then\r\n echo "[ERROR] Looks like bash was incorrectly compiled with another compler than arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc"\r\n echo "[ERROR] The resulting bash binary will not run on ARM, therefore aborting!"\r\n exit\r\nfi\r\narm-linux-gnueabi-strip -o bash-stripped -s bash\r\ncp .\/bash-stripped ..\/bash\r\ncd ..\r\nfile bash\r\necho "[INFO] Your bash binary is finished (file 'bash' in current directory), happy autocompleting on ARM!"\r\n<\/pre>\n