Re: loadables/rm not POSIX compliant

[Eli Schwartz]

On 5/28/19 12:09 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 02:04:10AM +1000, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>> In fact, the bash-doc package contains dozens of examples.  However, I
>> don't see anything named "rm".  (I'm looking at bash-doc 5.0-4 in Debian
>> 10, "buster".)
> 
> Looks like they're supposed to be in bash-builtins.
> 
> wooledg:~$ apt-cache search --names-only bash
> bash - GNU Bourne Again SHell
> bash-builtins - Bash loadable builtins - headers & examples
> bash-doc - Documentation and examples for the GNU Bourne Again SHell
> bash-static - GNU Bourne Again SHell (static version)
> [...]
> 
> However, it doesn't appear that all of them are being included:
> 
> wooledg:~$ dpkg -L bash-builtins | grep rm
> /usr/lib/bash/rmdir
> /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/loadables/rm.c
> /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/loadables/rmdir.c
> 
> Might be better to ask about this on a Debian mailing list.

Arch Linux provides the builtins in the main bash package, and we too
have most but not all.

Looking at examples/loadables/Makefile.in, only the ones listed in
ALLPROG are installed -- rm is in OTHERPROG, so this is Chet's decision
to not have them installed by default.

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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